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by OCTO
10 Mar 2024, 19:29
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 297

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: 361

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: 199

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: 684

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: 1913

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: 459

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...
by OCTO
29 Jan 2024, 22:47
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: glissando question (text vs no-text)
Replies: 6
Views: 459

Re: glissando question (text vs no-text)

Portamento is rarely notated in strings since it is considered as an expression. Nobody knows what Mahler wanted in his last movement of the last symphony. There are both recordings of glissando and portamento. In my music I use gliss. for all instruments since there are too many lines around... :) ...
by OCTO
28 Jan 2024, 18:33
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Finale Quartertones
Replies: 0
Views: 251

Finale Quartertones

Here is a solution for quartertones in Finale, using arrows to represent quarter tone alterations. 1. Install the font, the fan file, and copy Finale Scripts for the accidentals in the scripts' folder. 2. In Document Settings, use Maestroquartertones as the font for accidentals, and under Accidental...
by OCTO
23 Jan 2024, 23:21
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Enharmonic symbol
Replies: 27
Views: 440291

Re: Enharmonic symbol

JJP wrote: 19 Jan 2024, 05:49
John Ruggero wrote: 18 Jan 2024, 13:15 From the music engravers' Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."
I thought it was “do no enharm.”
King! I nearly fell off my chair laughing...
by OCTO
15 Jan 2024, 20:11
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: has anyone ever heard of "Daniels Instrumentation Standard"?
Replies: 8
Views: 112615

Re: has anyone ever heard of "Daniels Instrumentation Standard"?

MichelRE wrote: 10 Jan 2024, 05:14 the instrumentation MUST be written in the "Daniels Instrumentation Standard". I'd never heard of it before,
Is he a forum member?