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- 08 Oct 2015, 14:01
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Notational curiosity?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 35350
Re: Notational curiosity?
So we seem to have a consensus. And the Baerenreiter complete edition agrees. Great! I am doing yet another clarinet and piano arrangement and that is what I will do here. I would also interpret it as prolonging the last four notes of the ritardando in almost agonizing suspense. It is interesting th...
- 07 Oct 2015, 22:17
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Notational curiosity?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 35350
Notational curiosity?
The following is from the autograph of Schubert's "Arpeggione" Sonata. His fermatas tend to be large and florid, but in this case it is unclear as to what note the fermata applies to. Could this be a "collective fermata" encompassing several notes? Or was he just in a hurry? The ...
- 07 Oct 2015, 21:54
- Forum: Other: Publishing production and Sales
- Topic: Binding tricks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19582
Re: Binding tricks
Thanks, everyone, for sharing your "tricks of the trade"!
- 07 Oct 2015, 21:43
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Quarter rest design
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22929
Re: Quarter rest design
Fred, I dislike any symbol that seems to be falling over. I am not exactly sure what causes this effect; maybe the alignment of the leftmost projections in the symbol. I have seen certain treble clef designs (not one in one of the Finale fonts) that fall over and hate them. So I too prefer no. 2, an...
- 07 Oct 2015, 18:14
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Behind Bars
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24715
Re: Behind Bars
Sorry, but I think the title is incongruous and that it is even worse in the German. To me it sounds like something the publisher came up with to be "appealing". (A prison is appealing? Or maybe they are referring to a bartender?) And why? Who do they think the audience is for this book? A...
- 07 Oct 2015, 17:58
- Forum: Other: Publishing production and Sales
- Topic: Binding tricks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19582
Binding tricks
Here are few tricks I learned about binding music from Arnold Arnstein. For comb or spiral binding: 1. To make a durable sheet that will not pull through the binding holes, print the music single-sided and glue the pages back- to-back on the non-bound side with a thin line of rubber cement along the...
- 07 Oct 2015, 17:36
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Pencil engraving - scores
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33686
Re: Pencil engraving - scores
I doubt seriously that he went through any elaborate calculations of a type possible with a computer. A hand-made score is not held to the same engraving standards as an engraved score. He probably did it just as we used to do pen and ink parts: by pure instinct. You look ahead to see how many of th...
- 06 Oct 2015, 23:19
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: 12/8 Question
- Replies: 60
- Views: 90323
Re: 12/8 Question
Dear OCTO, Knut, and Fred, Thank you for your encouraging words and votes of confidence. I wish that I were in touch with other former Arnstein copyists to compare notes. Maybe this Forum will cause that to happen. Arnstein was always involved in the next big project and never found the time to writ...
- 06 Oct 2015, 17:28
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: 12/8 Question
- Replies: 60
- Views: 90323
Re: 12/8 Question
Arnold Arnstein* used the following rule: no quarter rests in 3/8, 6/8, 9/8 etc. or in the 3/8 parts of a composite meter. (He did use dotted quarter rests in these meters.) This meant that he would have notated the passage as in the first example with brackets above the notes to show the groups of ...