NOTATIO

I worked with Arnold Arnstein daily for six years as a music copyist and assistant and witnessed many consultations between “Arnie” and prominent composers who dropped by to discuss the copying of their latest work or just smooze... I have tried to know more about AA, WOW - must be great to be ther...

I have in front of me the score of Bent Sørensen's Violin Concerto. It is a handwritten score with numerous details and sometimes very dense. The composer uses even different staff sizes. I try to understand how he proceeded to make such decisions, how to calculate number of beats which would fit th...

http://blog.steinberg.net/ I know that this blog is devoted to the development of a future software, however I strongly recommend it. Many great thoughts on music notation can be found there (maybe not what we all agree), and what I like the most is a modest approach of the author. Daniel S names o...

Vaughan wrote:Very handy, Octo. Time signatures could also be useful.

There are now! /

I have checked numerous (older) scores and have found one interesting thing: In music that contains both normal and resized staff (like violin sonatas), the resized staff has embolden fonts, lines and curves. That is not true with all modern notation software, which reduce all items equally. I find ...

I have uploaded several emoticons, or better to say, music-icons so that it is easier to explain your thoughts.
More are coming!

Thank you! Spread the info, I am very thankful for that.

Interesting. Here is some survey. Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 8.55.59 AM.png Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 8.56.14 AM.png Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 9.13.47 AM.png Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 9.16.20 AM.png Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 9.17.07 AM.png Screen shot 2015-10-06 at 9.18.46 AM.png In this little surve...

Fred G. Unn wrote:I noticed you posted a link to this forum over on the Finale forum. Did you post on Sibelius too? I invited a few copyists who primarily use Sibelius, but I didn't see a post over on the Sibelius forum.

While I use sporadically Sibelius, I am not active on their forum.

https://www.edition-peters.de/cms/deuts ... id=EP72478

Yes, it is the top class book - must have!

Ther is German version: Hals über Kopf (funny translation) by Peters.