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I am notating some music that has a pedal harp part. Most of it makes good sense, but I cannot find any reference to the brackets indicated in the attached picture. Any idea what this is intended to convey? I cannot find any notation guide that includes these brackets. I am tempted to leave them out because I don't see where it adds anything to the music.
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Looks like it might indicate keeping the hand in one position. I don't think it is a slur.

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I'm certainly no expert, but you might find this website useful, where it says the bracket is to indicate that the notes are to be "connected" and all run in the same direction.  Perhaps a harpist can chime in here.

http://harpspectrum.org/harpworks/composing_for_harp/composing_for_harp.shtml

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Thanks for the comments. My wife actually plays the pedal harp and when I first showed her that example, she said it didn't make any sense. Stupid me, I should have asked if she had ever seen the bracket before. She indicated it is an instruction for when/where to place your hand. It isn't really for phrasing, but for the easiest way to play a sequence of notes. In other words, you set your wrist in position at the beginning of the bracket and pluck the notes with different fingers while the hand remains more of less in the same position, then move your hand for the next bracket. Apparently this is mainly used in etudes for developing technique and no advanced harpist would need that. This piece is for symphony orchestra, so that marking is surely superfluous.

But the reason she said she didn't understand the marking is because the T.C. group was chords rather than individual notes, and you really aren't going to set your hand in one position for those chords. So I'm going to delete the T.C. brackets, but leave the B.C. bracket in place because that one does make sense.

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What I said earlier is the conclusion you came to. Similar to piano. With piano, you might strike 124 to 245, then 123 to 235. Harp fingering might be different, but the concept is the same.

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