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by David Ward
26 Oct 2023, 21:33
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 760110

Re: Stem Direction question

Key signatures, if used, aren't just to minimize accidentals but to convey a tonal center. ... I always use a key sig that conveys the actual tonal center, whether major or minor, and then show the mode by using accidentals. … … … …I haven't given much thought to key signatures in (newer) modal mus...
by David Ward
15 Oct 2023, 19:22
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Stem Direction question
Replies: 50
Views: 760110

Re: Stem Direction question

… … …One of those is done at the cello, trying to play through things to find details that only a live musicians would have found missing! Unfortunately at 82 I can no longer play through all my vocal lines on the trombone, an instrument which in its prime register usually requires taking the same ...
by David Ward
11 Oct 2023, 11:52
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Beethoven's dots after a barline
Replies: 18
Views: 53002

Re: Beethoven's dots after a barline

NeeraWM wrote: 11 Oct 2023, 10:14 … … … I believe we should keep conventions separated by contextualising their final use.
Yes!
by David Ward
26 Sep 2023, 19:01
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: On the use of tablets and BT page turners
Replies: 25
Views: 59879

Re: On the use of tablets and BT page turners

Apart from my comment above, I have a question or two. Can players using parts on iPads etc mark fingerings, bowings, breathings and all the rest in these? Or do they still have to rely on paper parts for that sort of thing? If iPad parts can be annotated in this way, when the string section princip...
by David Ward
26 Sep 2023, 11:28
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: On the use of tablets and BT page turners
Replies: 25
Views: 59879

Re: On the use of tablets and BT page turners

I recently received this in an e-mail from the pianist for an eight and a half minute duet song of mine due to have it's first performance in November: “Thank you for the PDF of your song – I will be using ‘real’ paper music (because I’m old-fashioned in these things...), but I suspect both singers ...
by David Ward
24 Sep 2023, 09:24
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Piano fingering example
Replies: 15
Views: 13294

Re: Piano fingering example

… … … … Unfortunately, it appears on page 309 of Behind Bars . I'm ill-qualified to comment on keyboard fingering, being a very poor pianist, but I suspect a problem with this example from Elaine Gould's book might be that it's trying to illustrate too many different things in one example. (I leave...
by David Ward
18 Sep 2023, 17:16
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: tremolo notes and ties
Replies: 6
Views: 10766

Re: tremolo notes and ties

I thought I ought to check what I did myself. Inconsistent! In a piece written in 2015/16 I use ties, but in one written in 2019 I don't. This probably sums it up: there is no absolute rule and both are correct.

Dashed ties are maybe a bit fussy, but perfectly acceptable if that's what you prefer.
by David Ward
18 Sep 2023, 10:46
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: divisi to non-divisi notation in strings
Replies: 8
Views: 11173

Re: divisi to non-divisi notation in strings

Necessary? Possibly not; but then maybe yes. ie Unequivocal if you do have it.
by David Ward
31 Aug 2023, 16:10
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: "only" forte?
Replies: 5
Views: 9497

Re: "only" forte?

Maybe :forte (non troppo).