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by Anders Hedelin
01 Dec 2023, 09:25
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplet values
Replies: 8
Views: 77268

Re: Tuplet values

Doesn't it look more like a badly placed 2? (Left bottom "corner".)
Badly placed or perhaps a little too small.
by Anders Hedelin
24 Nov 2023, 11:53
Forum: Manual Notation
Topic: The Stravigor?
Replies: 6
Views: 38353

Re: The Stravigor?

John Ruggero wrote: 18 Nov 2023, 17:31 Beethoven would have loved it...
Not to mention Schubert. Most likely he'd written 10 symphonies if he'd had that.
by Anders Hedelin
07 Nov 2023, 12:55
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: string quad-stop question
Replies: 9
Views: 59592

Re: string quad-stop question

I can't let go of the question of long or short chord breakings. As I understand it, OCTO, you prefer Szeryng's smooth and almost simultaneous chords, but I'd like your opinion about what's often heard in Bach performances. Take fx. this beginning of the first solo violin sonata by Bach: Bach multi-...
by Anders Hedelin
05 Nov 2023, 16:23
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: string quad-stop question
Replies: 9
Views: 59592

Re: string quad-stop question

I think the question how to notate the difference between a rather fast, unaccented beginning of a broken four-stop on a string instrument, and a more accentuated one, remains unanswered. John's comparison, interesting as it is, doesn't say much about string notation. While four-stops, notated as ch...
by Anders Hedelin
30 Oct 2023, 13:30
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument
Replies: 4
Views: 25036

Re: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument

I'll go with Michel here. For a score of this size, tempo indications at the top only seems good enough to me. In every part there'd be tempo indications anyhow. No one would risk missing anything. The space problem might possibly be resolved by further diminishing the size of the staves, and draggi...
by Anders Hedelin
27 Oct 2023, 16:22
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 759986

Re: Stem Direction question

David Ward wrote: 27 Oct 2023, 15:39 [About Berg's Wozzeck] ... there was a score in the music library at the boarding school I was at, although I suspect that if the staff had studied it they might, in those days at least, have blocked my access to it.
!! I'm glad they didn't.
by Anders Hedelin
27 Oct 2023, 09:51
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 759986

Re: Stem Direction question

The point I'm making is that there probably is a psychological difference in notating and/or playing with or without a key signature. Possibly this isn't the kind of psychological difference you had in mind, David, but anyway I found this example of a key signature in an othertwise no-signature con...
by Anders Hedelin
26 Oct 2023, 19:13
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 759986

Re: Stem Direction question

Key signatures, if used, aren't just to minimize accidentals but to convey a tonal center. ... I always use a key sig that conveys the actual tonal center, whether major or minor, and then show the mode by using accidentals. Perhaps that's more appropriate in music with a more stable tonal center? ...
by Anders Hedelin
26 Oct 2023, 07:19
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 759986

Re: Stem Direction question

Thanks for your extensive reply, Fred! I have a question, though. As I understand modal key signatures, in fx E Dorian there would be two sharps etc. Now, wouldn't a key signature with F sharp and C sharp be quite unproblematic, regardless of which scales and harmonies there are? Or, have I misunder...
by Anders Hedelin
24 Oct 2023, 13:35
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 759986

Re: Stem Direction question

In my experience this came especially from percussion players who asked for a different instrument disposition or staff usage in parts. Yes, percussions are special. In their part I use to combine them all in a percussion score (usually without Timpani). This gives the players a lot of cues from th...