NOTATIO

Durand

Thanks Octo. While I can see your suggestions might make some difference, I am working to a strict style sheet, and those 3 options are not available to me. Thanks for your appreciative comments

There are options, but I don't think any would be significantly clearer. Double stopping pitches less than 3rd will always be difficult, especially with dotted notes. Compared with a keyboard where the one hand plays everything, here you need to be clear how the music on each string lines up. I thin...

I managed five pages of this yesterday, hopefully five more today.... perhaps I'll get some sleep on Sunday!

The problem(though not insurmountable) that arises from mixing algorithms is that you'll lose them in the extracted (or linked) parts as they will always set to the default (current setting) for the whole part. The work can be re-done part-by part though. I sometimes use the allotment libraries to s...

The main view has the 4 basic staves for string quartet (they sometimes play on a 5-line staff). I then have staff styles for (so far 3) other special staves. The clef is created in the clef designer and the staff style has transpositions set to show this clef but not change the notes.

Here is the first page I produced today of a string Quartet by Harold Parra (page 22). Hopefully dealing with 5 pages a day should get this finished in a couple of weeks (feels like a hundred years). This is all done in Finale, no imported graphics. Some detail will need tidying this is raw work, un...

half rests in 3/2 ok, but not in 6/4. I think music notation evolves much like language. Language perhaps becomes more illogical because so many more people input their opinion until common usage takes over from common sense, or at least from logical construction. Music notation seems to evolve in t...

I don't think players have too much trouble distinguishing a dotted rest from an undotted rest any more an they do a dotted note from an undotted one. If there is consistency in the use of rests, it will be clear that all whole beat rests will be a dotted rest, or not, depending which system is chos...

Sure, I understand the logic of how the various systems arose. It is interesting, I think, now that hand copying is almost obsolete, that the current generally preferred method is a mixture of methods, that is to say (ref your example above) X1 combined with Ornstein bar 2