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by David Ward
24 May 2020, 20:48
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Note values in Schumann
Replies: 36
Views: 17005

Note values in Schumann

This is from Schumann's Dichterliebe. I'm interested in the crotchets (quarters) in the right hand. It's clear what is meant, but would it be acceptable to notate it thus nowadays, or would one be advised to do it differently?
by David Ward
20 May 2020, 18:10
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 3.5 released!
Replies: 5
Views: 4020

Re: Dorico 3.5 released!

If only I wasn't so old (79) I'd now give Dorico a very serious go, but I just feel it would be a distraction (to add to all the others of the time). I'm almost tempted to give up computer typesetting & return exclusively to the medium in which I'm most naturally fluent: manuscript… Best not, I ...
by David Ward
13 Apr 2020, 16:39
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Working during Covid-19 lockdown
Replies: 17
Views: 15757

Re: Working during Covid-19 lockdown

Does anybody else find it very difficult to write music that is coherent, let alone substantial, in the present circumstances? Or is it just me?
by David Ward
11 Apr 2020, 21:28
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Working during Covid-19 lockdown
Replies: 17
Views: 15757

Working during Covid-19 lockdown

Although at least one significant country with citizens as members of this forum is not currently in full lockdown, others are, including my own country of Scotland. I had presumed that I would be wonderfully active composing at my desk with all the extra time on my hands as an elderly (79) person w...
by David Ward
10 Apr 2020, 18:24
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Nightingale source code
Replies: 6
Views: 7517

Re: Nightingale source code

… … …I suspect to get publishable results you needed much more engraving experience than I had at the time. Then I moved up to Finale; now Dorico. Each step up (including Nightingale from my handwriting) seemed revolutionary. As a composer rather than copyist, engraver or publisher, I believe I hav...
by David Ward
13 Mar 2020, 16:55
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: If Dorico had Dorico...
Replies: 26
Views: 24683

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

John Ruggero wrote: 13 Mar 2020, 13:46
benwiggy wrote: 13 Mar 2020, 11:42 I think he'd be rather impressed with the result.
I think so too. Beautiful.
Yes, indeed.
by David Ward
09 Mar 2020, 22:31
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: "Ten Music Notation Programs", including Dorico
Replies: 41
Views: 46571

Re: "Ten Music Notation Programs", including Dorico

I may be a flag-waver for Dorico, but that's because I've used so many other notation apps that didn't do what software is supposed to do: to help us; and to do the work for us. The only notation ‘software’ that can really be made to do exactly what I want is manuscript; but of course that's time-c...
by David Ward
04 Mar 2020, 17:11
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Score with no dots!
Replies: 22
Views: 24887

Re: Score with no dots!

When I recently offered a string quartet parts newly typeset in Finale for a piece of mine they premiered in 1994 from my hand copied parts, they declined, saying they'd prefer to use the old parts. I don't think it would have taken long to transfer their markings to smart new parts, so I'm not sure...
by David Ward
01 Mar 2020, 08:32
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Future of notation software
Replies: 36
Views: 34201

Re: Future of notation software

It took several years of my pestering before they added something as minimal as a shortcut for the Clear key for Mac laptops! Puh!!!! I didn't know that it existed, I needed it so many times. And what's the key?? Shift-Fn-Delete works as clear; but that needs two hands. Is there a one-handed option?
by David Ward
20 Feb 2020, 08:19
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Triplet across beat?
Replies: 10
Views: 10070

Triplet across beat?

The general view is that A is acceptable but B is not. Do members of this forum believe there any situations where B would be OK? Perhaps in a free cadenza-like passage in which exact counting/ensemble is not the point? And what about triplets across the middle beats of 4/4? I suspect I may sometime...