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- 03 Mar 2024, 02:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Alignment of lyric hyphens
- Replies: 4
- Views: 190
Re: Alignment of lyric hyphens
I do think that it looks odd and should be corrected. I've had similar situations with simultaneous continuation dashed lines for dynamics and tempo indications and was only able to correct them in Finale by using two dashed Smart Lines with the proper distance between the dashes.
- 02 Mar 2024, 03:10
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Italic/oblique flat and sharp glyphs?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 223
Re: Italic/oblique flat and sharp glyphs?
I vote Quirky. For me, the sharp, flat and natural symbols lose their essential character if not upright. But then I don't like treble clefs that lean forward either...
- 14 Feb 2024, 12:20
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fermata question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 718
Re: Fermata question
Looks good to me. And Arnstein probably would have put the col canto vocal part in the other parts as a cue.
- 13 Feb 2024, 20:53
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fermata question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 718
Re: Fermata question
Two quarter rests seems clearer to me. I'm pretty sure Arnstein would have done it that way since he wanted exact correspondence of fermatas between all the parts including within cues.
- 05 Feb 2024, 13:35
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
I get your point about the Mozart example though. I guess this is not a generally understood and accepted device, but something that lives on a more personal individual plane? I think that the centered beam, like so many aspects of music notation, is capable of many different meanings. While genera...
- 05 Feb 2024, 13:23
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
Yes, the early version in the WF Bach Notebook shows a completely different and what seems to me to be a somewhat disorganized usage. The subject in the bass in measure 1 has inconsistent stem direction and the subject in measure 2 is set off with a centered beam that results both in inconsistent an...
- 04 Feb 2024, 13:10
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
Continuing regarding apparent inconsistency in the use of centered beams: Many centered beams seem to be a manifestation of a tendency to avoid changes of stem direction in the middle of a musical unit, be it a motive, sub-phrase or even a whole phrase. I have seen this tendency in the works of Bach...
- 04 Feb 2024, 00:04
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
When I first encountered this centered beam, I asked myself the same question. The issue is complicated. A simple answer might be that Bach (and other composers and engravers of his time) avoided centered beams when ledger lines were involved to avoid reading difficulties. This is clearer in the ori...
- 03 Feb 2024, 03:49
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
You are both very welcome!
OCTO., the analytical example for the Mozart was done in Dorico, which I am now using exclusively. The last Bach example was done in Finale many years ago. The second Bach example is from the NBA.
OCTO., the analytical example for the Mozart was done in Dorico, which I am now using exclusively. The last Bach example was done in Finale many years ago. The second Bach example is from the NBA.
- 01 Feb 2024, 19:04
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Mozart Centered Beam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2041
Re: Another Mozart Centered Beam
Ah, authenticity, what a difficult and deep topic! And a for that reason an excellent topic for discussion! If it were to be "authentic", then why not use the soprano clef directly? I don't believe in "authenticity" for its own sake. But I do believe in preserving what the compo...