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by MJCube
24 Jan 2016, 02:10
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: A Test
Replies: 23
Views: 26635

Re: A Test

I don’t feel a V chord on beat 2 where you have written it. That bar is all I (‘one’) to me, even with beat 2 outlining the essential tritone. I think it’s unlikely that LvB would feel the line hitting a vertical 7th on beat 2 and a 4th on beat 3, both resolving up (the “wrong way”), even at the tin...
by MJCube
23 Jan 2016, 19:10
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: # and natural symbols
Replies: 20
Views: 24955

Re: # and natural symbols

Fascinating! This never occurred to me before, and the optical illusion issue is obvious on close inspection. I suppose it might be relatively simple for an application to align a single sharp in the Durand style, above. But what about chords, mixed accidentals, etc.? How can this be codified for mo...
by MJCube
23 Jan 2016, 17:26
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: A Test
Replies: 23
Views: 26635

Re: A Test

Excellent counterexamples! This forum is becoming a great supplement to my education. My eye prefers D as the clearest. I note that the standard stem directions allow me to peripherally observe the rhythm while my eye focuses on the noteheads melodically, just as well as stems all in the same direct...
by MJCube
18 Jan 2016, 22:19
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Engravers vs Composers: Stem Direction 2
Replies: 22
Views: 25441

Re: Engravers vs Composers: Stem Direction 2

To call your own stem directions “not correct” is to admit that their breaking the rules doesn’t carry any meaning. I’m on the fence about whether to agree with John’s conjectures about Beethoven or not. The question this prompts for me is: Do engravings which ignore Beethoven’s stem directions in f...
by MJCube
13 Jan 2016, 19:44
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Strange notation in Ravel
Replies: 33
Views: 39791

Re: Strange notation in Ravel

Thanks to erelievonen for that! Makes perfect sense to me. One disadvantage of making the lower note of a second the “back-note” might be that it leaves a tiny white gap between the noteheads, so they may look less connected in a chord. In the usual modern alignment, the noteheads of a second always...
by MJCube
07 Jan 2016, 20:04
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?
Replies: 14
Views: 17114

Re: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?

Hi OCTO – If you’re seeing all the the rows of 16 identical symbols in the character set of Bravura Text , those are alternates accessed by the vertical shift characters. For example, see Implementation Notes for Time Signatures, U+E09E & U+E09F. The shifted glyphs don’t have their own codepoint...
by MJCube
22 Dec 2015, 19:22
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Crumb's unique rhythms
Replies: 20
Views: 25810

Re: Crumb's unique rhythms

John wrote:He's adding on one side of the chord and subtracting on the other.
Brilliant!! And why did I never think of this? It’s compact, perfectly clear, and the principle could be extensible to other durations.
by MJCube
22 Dec 2015, 19:14
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Strange notation in Ravel
Replies: 33
Views: 39791

Re: Strange notation in Ravel

In the Sonatine1 example, I notice the LH chord with fermata has notes on the ‘wrong’ sides of the stem! I wonder if there was a reason for that. I don’t recall ever seeing that in a plate engraving before. (It isn’t even possible in Sibelius without resorting to symbols.) John, did you notice this ...
by MJCube
15 Dec 2015, 14:06
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Arnstein and the "whole measure rest"
Replies: 16
Views: 21163

Re: Arnstein and the "whole measure rest"

I and friends have certainly been tripped up by a whole rest in 4/2 meter. It is even not unheard of to mistake a half rest at the beginning of a 4/4 bar, since it’s larger than the beat. I have actually seen 2 quarter rests written in such a case. Conversely, a whole rest IS appropriate in a meter ...
by MJCube
15 Dec 2015, 13:59
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: BW-balance
Replies: 9
Views: 13343

Re: BW-balance

High contrast of thick & thin strokes actually does not aid readability. After over 25 years of music setting I have finally realized that very fine staff lines, stems, barlines, etc., are harder to see at normal reading sizes in exactly the same way as a Bodoni or Didot is less legible than Cen...