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Good points, John. Actually my point about the beams was another, but since it's probably a bit idiosyncratic there's no point in repeating it.

Still, I can easily switch between accepting flat beams in concave note movements, and sloping beams following the trend of the notes. It's like walking in and out of rooms - in some of them you have to wear a jacket and a tie, in others you can come in a baggy sweater. I appreciate both possibiliti...

By no means! BTW I've found this, and the other forum truly educational. One tiny example: I was perfectly happy with the 8va and 8vb symbols until you pointed out that they were a creation by notation programs and had no substantiation in good old editions. So acceptance changed into rejection. And...

One point could be that not just experimenting with different approaches, but trying to get used to them, or even to like them could be beneficial in one way or other.

FWIW when experimenting with different beam appearances, flat, a little sloping, or more sloping, I've noticed that the eye quickly adapts to what is at hand. If you use flat beams (as in the example shown above), the eye, well my eye, takes it more or less for granted. If you use another approach, ...

Anyone have an explanation of why? FWIW this is an attempt at an explanation: It strikes me that notes and rests belong in different structural levels, at least partly so. Notes generally are part of the rhythmic details on the structural surface (1st staff below). Rests have, however, a double fun...

Interestingly enough notes and rests don't seem to demand the same level of rhythmic clarity. In both examples below the notes on the first staff are unproblematic, but the rests on the second ones are not. Notes vs. rests 1.JPG Notes vs. rests 2.JPG The rule of showing the middle of a 4/4 measure i...

And on top of the optical and psychological reasons not to like 'dark mode' there's the aesthetic aspect. I (too?) find it overdesigned, to use David's word, and in poor taste. Just because you can do it on a computer, you don't have to.

What if Poulenc's Sex Tour is a completely different work from his Sextour? Posthumous? Known to just a few, like Hansen?

John Ruggero wrote: ↑31 Jan 2022, 14:37 Then there is "voice" as applied by music software programs to mean anything stemmed together. That one really gets my goat.

Stemmed voices - sounds like tacet? Well, not sounds, perhaps.