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- 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...
- 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.
I'm still curious about the origin of 'the hard rule' however.
- 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'...
- 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...
- 23 Jan 2024, 21:23
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Enharmonic symbol
- Replies: 28
- Views: 441210
Re: Enharmonic symbol
Having browsed through the thread, I find that one solution is missing. The simplest, and least harmful IMO.
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.- 22 Jan 2024, 19:30
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Enharmonic symbol
- Replies: 28
- Views: 441210
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...
- 11 Jan 2024, 19:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Enharmonic symbol
- Replies: 28
- Views: 441210
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?
- 13 Dec 2023, 16:16
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: What a difference a line makes!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148696
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...
- 11 Dec 2023, 20:28
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: unison wih different value noteheads, question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 133751
- 01 Dec 2023, 12:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Tuplet values
- Replies: 8
- Views: 77286
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...