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by OCTO
01 Apr 2024, 19:01
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Scores in C or transposing?
Replies: 16
Views: 792

Re: Scores in C or transposing?

I think I may be misunderstanding the "laziness" comment. Yes, that was indeed a bit awkward. Just learn damn transposition. It is as difficult as learning riding a bike. Octo, why so harsh on us who haven't got your speedy uptake? I learned how to ride a bike when I was 7 or 8, but still...
by OCTO
31 Mar 2024, 00:04
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Scores in C or transposing?
Replies: 16
Views: 792

Re: Scores in C or transposing?

The laziness of this topic equals learning G clef only and expecting everything else outside it to be written in octave (8va).
The bass clef is visually transposed G clef, and vice versa.

Just learn damn transposition. It is as difficult as learning riding a bike.
by OCTO
27 Mar 2024, 08:21
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Scores in C or transposing?
Replies: 16
Views: 792

Re: Scores in C or transposing?

John Ruggero wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 03:08
JJP wrote: 26 Mar 2024, 05:34 Yet, a concert score feels strange to him on the podium because it doesn’t look like it sounds.
I guess when a transposed score looks like it sounds, you are definitely a good score reader.
The transposed score does sound as it looks!
by OCTO
24 Mar 2024, 12:20
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Scores in C or transposing?
Replies: 16
Views: 792

Re: Scores in C or transposing?

Once he also said that his own music has changed since he started using a notation software for composing (or it was Digital Performer?). Some great composers hate transposed scores. Prokofiev hated all kind of "useless constrains" that didn't result in a plain output. He notated the Engli...
by OCTO
19 Mar 2024, 21:59
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: First MuseScore experience
Replies: 4
Views: 555

Re: First MuseScore experience

I think that MuseScore can produce an exceptional good output. There are many things that I miss in MS4 but there is one thing that all other programs (Finale, Sibelius) lack is: "move an item and keep it there until I touch it"—setting. My journey you can see here: https://notat.io/viewto...
by OCTO
10 Mar 2024, 19:29
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 705

Re: Accent shape

benwiggy wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 14:56
Screenshot 16.png
I like this. I think I have seen it somewhere!
The bottom bold adds some spicy personality to it, I believe it is easy to percept.
by OCTO
04 Mar 2024, 10:52
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placement of tuplets
Replies: 12
Views: 513

Re: Placement of tuplets

So I began to wonder: Where does this "basic rule" come from really? I believe that the rule is similar to where the beams are placed. Usually the tuplet should be placed at the "beaming" side. Thus in "Gould - tuplets b.JPG", the example is actually wrong. The first t...
by OCTO
04 Mar 2024, 10:41
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Italic/oblique flat and sharp glyphs?
Replies: 4
Views: 258

Re: Italic/oblique flat and sharp glyphs?

I agree. It would be such as making staff "italic", or stems "italic". I would stick with exact roman for both accidentals AND note-names, the font should differ from the rest of music.
by OCTO
18 Feb 2024, 19:00
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Fermata question
Replies: 6
Views: 752

Re: Fermata question

Two quarter rests seems clearer to me. I'm pretty sure Arnstein would have done it that way since he wanted exact correspondence of fermatas between all the parts including within cues. Exactly. The fermata is precisely on the second beat, starting and finishing there. There is no fermata on the fi...