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- 31 Jan 2018, 13:38
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
- Replies: 19
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Re: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
I am glad you appreciate the Schenker editions, Julian. The measure numbers are at the end of every 5 measures and large like rehearsal letters with circular enclosures. But one one gets used to it; at least i did. When the edition was later reissued by Universal, the more usual system was used inst...
- 29 Jan 2018, 19:54
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Henle Blog and App
- Replies: 16
- Views: 33516
Re: Henle Blog and App
Thanks, Knut! As OCTO so rightly said, your comment hit the mark perfectly. And I think that OCTO's tractor-Mercedes analogy is not only amusing but also right on target. I should have mentioned that I have only been able to get my comments out of their spam filter by sending them also to the editor...
- 29 Jan 2018, 15:30
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: My current Sibelius slur settings
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23229
Re: My current Sibelius slur settings
As an unedited example, it is excellent, achieves your stylistic goals, and is probably good enough since there is always a little hand work to be done here and there. Good to know in case they continue to "improve" Finale to the point where I too can't use it any more.
- 28 Jan 2018, 13:02
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: My current Sibelius slur settings
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23229
Re: My current Sibelius slur settings
Thanks, OCTO. It is very nice. The basic slur shape looks better than Dorico to me and more like FInale. Maybe Knut will comment on it. I would make the fourth one on the middle staff bow out a little more to take it away from the middle note. All of these programs have problems with a steep series ...
- 23 Jan 2018, 23:45
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: My current Sibelius slur settings
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23229
Re: My current Sibelius slur settings
The proof is in the pudding, OCTO. Could you post an example? I am interested to compare them with the Dorico slurs with which I am presently involved.
- 21 Jan 2018, 19:03
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30253
Re: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
Great question, and I will attempt to restrain myself. I assume that you know about Schenker's theoretical work. What is often not known is that as a very fine practical musician, his primary aim was interpretation and composition. He felt that the nineteen century had misunderstood what had been ac...
- 19 Jan 2018, 04:17
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30253
Re: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
Heinrich Schenker's edition, now very inexpensively reprinted by Dover, has the most natural and musical fingering and the best help with ornamentation etc., and is the one that I require my students to use. It was one of the first practical editions to make serious use of the original sources and, ...
- 16 Jan 2018, 16:02
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Henle Blog and App
- Replies: 16
- Views: 33516
Re: Henle Blog and App
Thanks, Schonbergian. There is a new post on the Henle blog in agreement. Perhaps others will express their opinion. Here is a golden opportunity to express how one feels about the quality of their current engraving directly to Henle...
- 16 Jan 2018, 15:33
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Pitch bracket notation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11822
Re: Pitch bracket notation
This system flies in the face of Western musical notation starting with neumes. Since the 1200-year interaction of our notational system with the development of our music has made the two inseparable, all attempts to severe them have and will fail.
- 10 Jan 2018, 22:39
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
- Replies: 7
- Views: 22632
Re: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
I think that the slurs were probably pressed on with Notaset for short and medium and drawn with instruments for the longer and more complex ones. But I never got to that far...