NOTATIO

What do members of the forum think might be the neatest way to notate that the ‘m’ of ‘doom’ should perhaps be held as a voiced consonant for the whole of the last bar in the screenshot?

I can think of several different ways which should all be understood, but am looking for the neatest.

I suspect you're probably thinking along the right lines. Enharmonics can be a quagmire. As it happens just two or three minutes ago I was noticing a vocal line I wrote in 2012 which has (in order) D sharp, F natural, F sharp. From the point of view of the vocal line alone E sharp would be better, b...

Thanks: looks interesting (with some familiar names).

Is there a Dorico users' forum as such? If not which is the most useful forum to monitor if one wants to assess whether or not one might one day succumb and transfer to using it? I feel very reluctant to make the change from Finale, despite all the frustrations, as a) I'll probably have to keep up-d...

To come back on this, I've sometimes worked with singers who have perfect pitch but limited knowledge of harmony. Although such singers almost never sing out of tune (as such), they do sometimes sing wrong notes. That's a bit like striking the wrong note on a piano, they tell me, as it's ‘in tune’ a...

Is my meaning clear from my use of a slur for the Dowager in bars 224 & 225? Crotchet (1/4) = 84. This is a piece put aside in 2011 and now due extensive revision, including in its engraving (eg I plan smaller italic bar numbers, all vocal articulations to be above the stave &c &c &c...

Thanks Ben and Florian, this is all good to know.

How easy would it be to typeset these pages in Dorico (see 2 scans of the A3 MS)? I think I might work out how to try in Finale, but…

(BTW these pages are not from the opera referred to in my previous post in this thread.)

Oh dear, oh dear: why was Dorico not around when I started computer notation? I'm soon to be 78 and realize I simply can't face learning new software to replace Finale, but am instead frustrating myself trying to revise a huge - gigantic, 16 very large files - piece originally typeset in Finale 2010...

In the wider context of this thread, what do you all make of this? About two years ago, a string quartet I'd written in the 1990s was to be performed. At the time of its composition, I'd very hurriedly hand copied the parts for the imminent public premiere, not in ink like a professional copyist, bu...