NOTATIO

Does anyone feel like getting this thread going again? I didn't mean for my comment to sort of shut things down, I was just pointing out the wide variation in the comprehensiveness of style guides. I have quite a few of them and have created quite a few for co-workers on various jobs so I'd also be ...

Did you start yet? Are you going to give updates on the experience as you go, or just post after the job is completed? I've never used MuseScore so I'm sort of curious how it goes.

How comprehensive of a style guide are you looking to discuss? I mean, "Behind Bars" started as the Faber style guide and it's 676 pgs long. The Boosey guide is 146 pgs, Schirmer 103, and UE only 23. I've created many brief style guides for co-workers on different jobs that are simply a few screenca...

I've seen big band composers write to, followed by the beat number, to instruct players to hold a note full length. This seems a bit cumbersome to me, but seems to work in a jazz context. Even more common in a jazz context is a simple notation such as "-3," "-4.5," etc. to mean "off on 3" or "off o...

I hope I don't start getting routinely asked for these, although I do usually offer a low grade playback file to the non-musician part of any cross-art collaboration. It seems pretty routine for me now. Most of the time I'm working in Finale and I have Garritan Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, ...

OCTO. perhaps implied in your post is that computer-composers have to notate everything literally for exact computer playback. Then they treat musicians iike computers. "Music" like this should stay on computers for other computers to listen to. For a lot of jobs now, a fairly detailed audio mock-u...

The books can be interesting to read for the music engraving professionals, particularly for - in my opinion - finding a good balance in BW output on page, density and object boldness (staff lines, small staffs, etc.). I think that I would find that aspect of it interesting, thanks. I have a few bo...

Sorry to bump a 2 yr old thread, but I've been on a bit of a notation book collecting spree lately and was looking into this book on Amazon. The content may be great, and the chapter headings may have been an editorial decision beyond the author's control, but ... a book on visual perception that pu...

I agree it looks cool, but the decimal in the price needs to jump one spot to the left before I can consider it.

I've never used it for music, but has anyone ever tried Carol Twombly's Chaparral? It's a slab serif, but maybe a bit more humanistic than something like Clarendon. In any case it's certainly not as wide and seems better suited for extended text passages or lyrics than Clarendon to my eye anyway. Th...