NOTATIO

Knut, I don't think that the Peters editor was inconsistent. His reasoning is clear: to clarify the beats without breaking things up too much in areas where he discerned that Liszt didn't want any interior emphasis. He was trying to find a compromise between "normal" and Liszt's original....

The tempo marking means slow, but if it gets below 48 it'll be too slow, I think. I don't think it means as fast as possible with 48 as a minimum guide. (I know, that's not what you said). I have had about 3 file corruptions in 26 years of using Finale. It's not necessarily related to complex music,...

GREAT!!!! not only does the ms edition I'm working from have errors in the tuplet definitions, so I need to go through the whole thing and re-calculate them, but now my Finale file has corrupted, mirroring bar 18,19, 20 layer 2 into bar 5 layer 2. If I delete bar 5 I loose bars 18-19, and vice versa...

Example of beam breaks for different groups

I don't think secondary beams are broken for purposes of articulation, generally. I will accept that often all beams are broken for that purpose, but I think secondary beams are (should) only be broken for easing legibility, and therefore, while they should generally be used in orchestral material t...

Something else jumped out at me the moment I looked at Knut’s example: The angle of those beams is so steep that both the beams and the spaces between are noticeably thinner than normal. Like using a “shear” tool in a graphics program. (See Making Notes, Part 10 , the subhead “Shearing vs. rotating...

It is possible to remove the staff lines in F with the Pettersson beams plugin. Really? I don't see how to do that. There is a "French beams" option, which removes the STEMS between the beams, I don't see where it removes the STAFF lines. Sorry guys, my page didn't update so I hadn't noti...

The aim with beams is to enhance the experience of the eye following the contour of the notes and to avoid ugly white wedges where a beam intersects a stem line or a black wedge where a beam barely touches a line so the line makes it look thicker. 3 or 4 beams are difficult to angle well when they l...

This is how Xenakis wrote them in this piece. I have not been given instructions to standardise them, but I will do if I am so instructed.

here we go...