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Truthfully, I am completely out of my element in trying to advise you, DatOrganistTho, since I have no expertise in this area. I was hoping that someone more knowledgable would take up your question. Since that is not happening, please take this for what it is worth: Your last example appears best ...

Here's an example where the verse numbers (not to be confused with the stanzas) are by themselves wherever they begin in the music:
Any thoughts?

Here's something from the project I might be commissioned to work on (please keep in mind the sensitive nature of this music and it's copyright). It is default output (using LilyPond 2.18.x). I would stylize it once I can fix this problem that we are discussing. Psalm 61B - belmont.png Then there is...

It was so well said by DatOrganistTho that I immediately downloaded MuseScore and set to work notating a couple of measures from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 13. I was immediately impressed with how well thought-out the program is and how easy it is to use. However, I did run into an immediate gl...

Well said! Personally a big fan of the FOSS, I still get a bit scared of using a tool that is not so known. The only reason I don't give it a proper try is the number of engravers available for F or S. I don't type my scores in to the computer, so having a limited community is the main reason. But ...

I use it as well, mainly for hard pressing situations where I can't (for some reason) come up with a solution in LilyPond in time. 2.X is a fabulous improvement (indeed, when I purchased my own version of Sibelius 6, I was already trying to make the leap to LilyPond, and MuseScore 1.X was my curious...

DatOrganistTho, Could you provide some examples? Here's LASST UNS ERFREUEN, Ralph Vaughan Williams: http://www.hymnary.org/media/fetch/100659 You'll notice that the alignment of lyrics are based on the soprano voice, because when the other harmonies go into melisma, the text only aligns to the left...

Yes, breaking of the rules when composing is not that something we composers think about or not. Of course, it concerns composers who have written all their opus by hand, as it is with me - so far. I would even stress David's thought about the ink. Imagine this situation: you play with one hand a p...

DatOrganistTho wrote: I wouldn't have thought twice about what Beethoven was doing, but this is interesting and I'm willing to revisit it again. It is precisely for this reason that Beethoven took great care to preserve his sketchbooks: he thought that it would be both interesting and enlightening ...

Here's the last to systems of the 4th song in Ravel's Cinq mélodies populaires grecques: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques IV.jpg Apart from the unclear notation in the piano, 4th measure, my real question is with the 6th measure, piano, left hand. This seems to me like an overly complex, if not un...