NOTATIO

Out of curiosity, would you remove the staves for Piccolo when it isn't playing and that performer is back on 2nd flute? (back and forth within the same movement, for example) For me, it's all about helping orient the conductor to facilitate rehearsal time. If Clarinets and Bassoons are both playin...

I'm getting this warning when trying to access the forum:

I think I've been asked to do just about every combination or this before at one time or another, but my default for orchestral conductor's scores is condense by "like" instruments as needed, and if an instrument is playing at all in a movement, then their rests will be shown on every syst...

I seem to recall that's just how this forum software works. It sits in Outbox until it has been read by the recipient, at which point it gets moved to Sent.

I believe Arnstein used the phrase "it draws your eye down" instead of horizontally across the page. The idea is to prevent the music from looking like vertical columns. Rivers in justified text annoy me for this very reason, but I guess the barlines here don't. The casting off reflects t...

With some chromaticism, the barlines no longer match exactly: Is that alignment still close enough to bother you? The layout doesn't bother me at all here, even though the bar alignment is obviously very close.

Sorry John! I was assuming that was Finale when I commented about the Measure Tool. I think it's such an edge case that I don't think I've ever come across it in Dorico. I have zillions of projects of patterns, but I just looked through a bunch of them and I guess none have 3 consecutive systems of ...

FredGUnn, Here is the same example tweaked. I don't think it would raise any eyebrows, and it looks a lot better to me: Yeah, I agree. Simply grabbing the notes in the first measure on each line and moving them with the note spacing tool in Engrave Mode did it easily. Double-clicking with the Measu...

It gets a shrug from me. I understand the rationale, but it seems so unlikely to occur with modern engraved music as I'll almost never have strings of the same note value without any accidentals, lyrics, chords, etc to break up the line, that I don't worry about it. Even with your example, I'm not s...

I assume you checked out the Beaters Pictogram SMuFL range as well as the Percussion Playing Technique Pictograms range? Those seem to have the current standard glyphs like those from pages 223-4 of Stone ...
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