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by OCTO
27 Mar 2024, 08:21
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Scores in C or transposing?
Replies: 10
Views: 285

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: 10
Views: 285

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: 408

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: 501

Re: Accent shape

benwiggy wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 14:56
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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: 420

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: 225

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: 718

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...
by OCTO
02 Feb 2024, 12:55
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
Replies: 16
Views: 2042

Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam

Question on the source: why the printed version you attached doesn't show the two triplets in beat 4, left-hand, of both bars, and in beat 2, right-hand? The passing notes that create the triplets appear to have been added later throughout the piece. Most editors have felt that this was probably an...
by OCTO
30 Jan 2024, 23:46
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: glissando question (text vs no-text)
Replies: 6
Views: 506

Re: glissando question (text vs no-text)

In his "Birds and Bells", Bent Sørensen uses both with and without gliss. There is also the overtone gliss, which must have that indication. Still, there is no exact consensus, but if your music is "advanced" enough, you can specify gliss. on the beginning and later omit it. Othe...