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by Anders Hedelin
04 Mar 2024, 15:06
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placement of tuplets
Replies: 12
Views: 418

Re: Placement of tuplets

Thank you for actually giving me an answer to my question, John! Your explanation of why this rule has become a rule is rather plausible, I think. I still wonder why it has become such a hard rule - at least in some quarters. In the 20th century scores I looked into, there was a number of 'inconsist...
by Anders Hedelin
04 Mar 2024, 14:23
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placement of tuplets
Replies: 12
Views: 418

Re: Placement of tuplets

By the way, with kind help from my client, the publisher, the composer at last agreed that my pragmatic treatment of tuplet indications were quite OK. Or quite good even.

I'm still curious about the origin of 'the hard rule' however.
by Anders Hedelin
04 Mar 2024, 13:38
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placement of tuplets
Replies: 12
Views: 418

Re: Placement of tuplets

Your general survey of the evolution of music notation is pretty much what I think myself, and not really what I was asking, Shinohara. My question was much more specific. When and why did the basic rule of tuplet placement emanate? Possibly it's impossible to find an answer to that question, but I'...
by Anders Hedelin
04 Mar 2024, 08:01
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placement of tuplets
Replies: 12
Views: 418

Placement of tuplets

In a job with avantgarde music I'm working on, I've encountered a problem with the placement of tuplet signs (numbers and brackets). The composer claims that they should always be placed on the "right side" of the staff - the stem side - and asked me to change several hundreds of them that...
by Anders Hedelin
23 Jan 2024, 21:23
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Enharmonic symbol
Replies: 28
Views: 441190

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Having browsed through the thread, I find that one solution is missing. The simplest, and least harmful IMO.
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The equal sign has been suggested already, and really says it all. The parenthesis is important, I think, to show that it's just a reminder, not a new information.
by Anders Hedelin
22 Jan 2024, 19:30
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Enharmonic symbol
Replies: 28
Views: 441190

Re: Enharmonic symbol

I've decided to add a cautionary accidental to the first note, which should be sufficient help, without muddying the waters too much. The placement of the cautionary accidental after the "problematic" note (in David's example F#) seems more logical than before it. The second alternative i...
by Anders Hedelin
11 Jan 2024, 19:57
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Enharmonic symbol
Replies: 28
Views: 441190

Re: Enharmonic symbol

IMO any supplementary explanation will just obscure the simple fact that the same note is spelled both as D flat and as C sharp. What's the problem?
by Anders Hedelin
13 Dec 2023, 16:16
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: What a difference a line makes!
Replies: 10
Views: 148685

Re: What a difference a line makes!

Ideally, I would have put a slur over the "For" as well, but I'd still value the line there. I did some work for a publisher recently who insisted that there was always a tiny bit of a line on any melisma, unless it was really impossible. I agree, on both points. Personally I don't find t...
by Anders Hedelin
11 Dec 2023, 20:28
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: unison wih different value noteheads, question
Replies: 26
Views: 133713

Re: unison wih different value noteheads, question

NeeraWM wrote: 11 Dec 2023, 19:48 Condensing-wise, you could have Horns I-II-IV together and III alone.
Better to expand the usual I-II, III-IV pattern into I-II, III, IV on three staves, than to introduce a new pattern of I-II-IV, III.
by Anders Hedelin
01 Dec 2023, 12:25
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplet values
Replies: 8
Views: 77258

Re: Tuplet values

Another question about your first example. Now and then I get older manuscripts to work with, where composers obviously use slurs instead of brackets for tuplets, in the old way. Sometimes they are broken, sometimes not. When not, the slurs are not always that obvious: are they just "tuplet slu...