Yes, I do indeed prefer the second.
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- 07 Apr 2019, 12:57
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Comparing text fonts (Operatic Score)
- Replies: 30
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- 07 Apr 2019, 09:01
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Comparing text fonts (Operatic Score)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 40688
Re: Comparing text fonts (Operatic Score)
There does indeed seem to be some research (though I don't know how thoroughly ‘peer reviewed’ etc) that suggests that sight-reading a vocal score with the libretto in a serif font is less prone to error than if it's in a sans serif one. It's something to do with ‘locking’ the eye in place. FWIW I c...
- 06 Apr 2019, 15:36
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Best way to notate long(ish) voiced consonant?
- Replies: 8
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Best way to notate long(ish) voiced consonant?
What do members of the forum think might be the neatest way to notate that the ‘m’ of ‘doom’ should perhaps be held as a voiced consonant for the whole of the last bar in the screenshot?
I can think of several different ways which should all be understood, but am looking for the neatest.
I can think of several different ways which should all be understood, but am looking for the neatest.
- 03 Mar 2019, 19:44
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: When to respell enharmonically?
- Replies: 1
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Re: When to respell enharmonically?
I suspect you're probably thinking along the right lines. Enharmonics can be a quagmire. As it happens just two or three minutes ago I was noticing a vocal line I wrote in 2012 which has (in order) D sharp, F natural, F sharp. From the point of view of the vocal line alone E sharp would be better, b...
- 11 Feb 2019, 22:15
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico forum?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5465
Re: Dorico forum?
Thanks: looks interesting (with some familiar names).
- 11 Feb 2019, 21:04
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico forum?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5465
Dorico forum?
Is there a Dorico users' forum as such? If not which is the most useful forum to monitor if one wants to assess whether or not one might one day succumb and transfer to using it? I feel very reluctant to make the change from Finale, despite all the frustrations, as a) I'll probably have to keep up-d...
- 14 Jan 2019, 22:24
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Accidentals in early Berg
- Replies: 6
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Re: Accidentals in early Berg
To come back on this, I've sometimes worked with singers who have perfect pitch but limited knowledge of harmony. Although such singers almost never sing out of tune (as such), they do sometimes sing wrong notes. That's a bit like striking the wrong note on a piano, they tell me, as it's ‘in tune’ a...
- 07 Dec 2018, 17:12
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Non-melisma slurs in vocal music?
- Replies: 1
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Non-melisma slurs in vocal music?
Is my meaning clear from my use of a slur for the Dowager in bars 224 & 225? Crotchet (1/4) = 84. This is a piece put aside in 2011 and now due extensive revision, including in its engraving (eg I plan smaller italic bar numbers, all vocal articulations to be above the stave &c &c &c...
- 30 Nov 2018, 07:42
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: More Dorico updates!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46203
Re: More Dorico updates!
Thanks Ben and Florian, this is all good to know.
- 29 Nov 2018, 20:01
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: More Dorico updates!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46203
Re: More Dorico updates!
How easy would it be to typeset these pages in Dorico (see 2 scans of the A3 MS)? I think I might work out how to try in Finale, but…
(BTW these pages are not from the opera referred to in my previous post in this thread.)
(BTW these pages are not from the opera referred to in my previous post in this thread.)