NOTATIO

I've been using scores from my university's library lately. Many of them are photographic reproductions, yet perfectly clear and detailed, so much that you'd never tell they weren't originals. Then I look at the reprints of the same scores, sold today in music stores, grainy and blurry and blobby to...

I agree with the misgivings suggested above. I haven't always liked graphic notation, but it's always seemed like it's sprung out of an inability for traditional notation to represent the genuine wishes of the composer. This doesn't seem to do that, and merely complicates matters without providing m...

Have there been any real studies on this beyond anecdotes? I always feel as though I'm a more active musician and more "guided" in my musicianship when I'm playing from a properly engraved score with human touches--as though the printing itself and its warmth is one and the same with the m...

I like the guy who dismisses the entire body of hand-engraved scores because they aren't "clear" or "high-res" (which is total hogwash--I have the Dover reprint of the 1892 Breitkopf plates for Schubert's string quartets, and it's about as clear as any computer score nowadays)--b...

I've definitely seen the "publisher model" used by a bunch of smaller Canadian publishers in the 1980s, and one of the most popular hymnals is also typeset with one.

I was under the impression that SCORE does not use fonts for any musical symbols (perhaps excepting dynamics?), but is entirely vector based. I suppose you can alter settings that affect the shape of the notes and other symbols. It's really amazing (to me, anyway) that the the application that almo...

@odod: Agreed on Schott, especially. Their font is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen on computer, even if I don't agree with all of its stylistic elements.

Bringing this discussion back towards Brahms, I found this articulation in his Second Symphony (violins). brahms.JPG I see this either as one legato group with bowings also indicated, or as two legato groups with a "phrase" indicated, leaning towards the second interpretation because of th...

Sibelius seems to be the most popular among modern European publishers, unfortunately. Finale seems more popular in North America and among engravers that love customization (such as us). If you count the drivel that passes as "music notation" nowadays by laypeople, MuseScore is probably t...

Schonbergian, could you post a Bach example? I can't think of anything like what you describe in the non-organ keyboard works. In any case, I try to maintain Bach's notation, as with every composer, since I consider it "different" but not obsolete and perfectly readable to current musicia...