NOTATIO

The Risatti book is not expensive. Lots of cheap copies around $10 on AbeBooks and eBay. It's a pretty useful resource IMO if anyone is interested in picking up a copy.

I just realized that whole Risatti book is available on Archive.org. You have to be logged in to "borrow" it. Here's the link:
https://archive.org/details/newmusicvoc ... a/mode/2up

The publication date of the Risatti book is 1975, so obviously all the examples he cites are prior to that. 76: Miroglio, Francis. Phases (1968) 32-B: Curran, Alvin S. Thursday Afternoon (1967) 59-B: Kilar, Wojciech. Générique (1964) 9: Benvenuti, Arrigo. Folia (1963) 111-B: Serocki, Kazimierz. Segm...

Here are a few pages from Christian Dimpker's book Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional (2013): Notatio-1.jpg Notatio-2.jpg Here's a page from Howard Risatti's book New Music Vocabulary: A Guide to Notation Signs for Contemporary Music (1975): Notatio-3.jpg In that book all the num...

It's probably worth remembering Avid was bought by the private equity firm STG in 2023 too. It's entirely possible that they have decided that the market can't support two paid notation programs, and Sib isn't worth the development cost. Avid's homepage is currently all about Pro Tools, Wolftech, Av...

Here’s the link to his post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ezJPbyKQpEkKe7JF/?mibextid=wwXIfr After a slow period of development, he did get Sibelius moving again, which I think was positive for the notation community no matter what software you use. I’m curious if that direction will continue or ...

Why the different approach to grouping in m15 and 31 compared to the 8va version in m33? I prefer the m33 version so I would just use it 8ba in those other two bars, but in any case, I'd be consistent unless you have a specific reason for notating those bars differently.

Why did Finale, announcing its sunset, go so far as to recommend Dorico rather than Musescore? MakeMusic didn't go out of business, they just discontinued Finale. MM's endorsement and steering of their user base to another product certainly was valuable and I'm sure their accountants could estimate...

Wow, very cool! I was never sophisticated enough at SCORE to have gotten into all the details of this, but I know my project manager used the BEAM subroutine, as well as a few others Tom made. Nice trip down memory lane!

Well, Ultimate Guitar was certainly originally Russian. They even famously argued that their "site violated no laws because its headquarters were in Russia, and the site’s practices complied with Russian laws." https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ecom.html Ultimate Guitar purch...