Question about recorder notation

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Question about recorder notation

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Does anyone know what the downward-pointing symbols mean at the end of the fourth line? Or the Xs above the last line?

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The V symbols: breath pauses?
X: do I remember rightly that it marks alternative fingerings? (I may be making that up)

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brianholton wrote:The V symbols: breath pauses?
X: do I remember rightly that it marks alternative fingerings? (I may be making that up)

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Hmmm, I thought that breath suggestion marks were noted with a comma looking figure above and between the notes. However, different world notations could be different. No clue on the X's.

I know in percussion notation and some guitar strumming notation those arrow looking figures represent down stroke and up strokes. But, doesn't really seem to apply here though does it.
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In string notation V over a note indicates bowing direction.

I've only seen a V between two notes, as in your example, when it implies a "break" of indeterminate length.
That is used in avant-garde music where even barlines and time signatures may be only implied:

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There are two V (break) examples above over the rests.

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