NOTATIO

If we have "Human Playback" with randomised adjustments for a more 'imperfect' and less robotic ensemble, might we not have "Human Engraving", where random alterations are made? My family comes from a long line of draftsmen, and I recently found some early practice-books of Copperplate handwriting t...

She also says that the hairpin should end on the right side of the ending note. Strangely enough, her examples show something else: most end on the left side of the noteheads! It could be an error. I'd be surprised, even with the best editorial practices, if a book of that size and scope did not co...

As for the upgrade itself: increased speed and improvements in automatic placement and avoidance is to be welcomed. But there is still so much for MM to address. So many long-standing bugs and limitations in notation and positioning -- colliding notes; beam over barlines is still a 'work around'; tu...

All from the version (2014?) where you could open newer files in older Finales there were no big problems with that, until now, I'm told. Actually, working with different versions of .musx has always had problems. There have been several new features introduced which get 'erased' by a round trip th...

And another one today, Dorico 2.1.20, which brings compatibility with Mojave.

Or just teach people to hold notes for the written duration unless expressly indicated otherwise! I have seen pencil markings of this kind: a horizontal arrow to the end of the note. (Given that we are generally talking about lengthier notes at the ends of phrases.) Though it's possible that this co...

Yes, there's the 'backwards quaver' rest, the 'mirror z', as well as the modern squiggle. I've yet to find how/why the modern squiggle came about, let alone gained ascendency. I can only suppose that other rest forms are easily confused with other durations, and as the crotchet became the dominant b...

My 7-year-old daughter is learning music notation at school. (Thankfully.) She told me today that they are taught to draw the crotchet rest as "a Z with a C below", which was a novel idea to me, though pleasing enough. As a result of which, I'm now having to research the origins of that form of rest...

A maintenance upgrade, Dorico 2.1.10, has been released today. The Steinberg team have also stated that another major free update will be forthcoming later this year, with a host of new features. https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/dorico-2-1-10-released-with-bug-fixes/ I've actually lost count of how...

Are you sure there isn't a font for this already? A quick Google search shows several different families of Woodwind fingering fonts.