NOTATIO

Hm... I would say the same. As composer myself, I tend to write something I shouldn't, but later on when proofreading I see something like that. I believe he wanted piano to wait somehow (endlessly) for cello to make ritardando... One thing I "feel" that happens is the following: the cello...

John Ruggero wrote:Anyway, I am going to buy the book because everyone seems to think so highly of it, but certainly not for the title.

I am definitely interested in your opinion about it!

All the children get their own pencils and sharpeners for Christmas this year. :D :t :D Those are very soft but very black and wonderful. Interesting. I always look after a good balance between hardness (B+ only) and quality (that don't break easily). But I haven't been thinking about the color! Wh...

Seems to be like that, Fred. I just wonder how he calculated how many measures/beats would fit per page. For me it seems to be the most problematic. Like: - finding the most dense beat - knowing your smallest item distance (notes with accidentals) - mapping that in to the raster - rasterizing the pa...

I have never hear of them, but for me (freelance composer) $40 is a bit to much. What is that on the top, I can't see well? I use "Staedtler" Tradition and Mars Lumograph. Tradition are cheaper than Lumograph, but I find Lumograph to be more solid. images-1.jpg 44727.jpg I use only B varia...

I used Maestro in both. When I printed the music, I was surprised to see that the two fonts looked different. The font by itself should look completely the same if it is the same font file. As Vaughan has said, these settings can be the case. It can also be deifferent beam settings, lines settings ...

English version of the title is so funny/clever and so is the German too!!

I worked with Arnold Arnstein daily for six years as a music copyist and assistant and witnessed many consultations between “Arnie” and prominent composers who dropped by to discuss the copying of their latest work or just smooze... I have tried to know more about AA, WOW - must be great to be ther...

I have in front of me the score of Bent Sørensen's Violin Concerto. It is a handwritten score with numerous details and sometimes very dense. The composer uses even different staff sizes. I try to understand how he proceeded to make such decisions, how to calculate number of beats which would fit th...

http://blog.steinberg.net/ I know that this blog is devoted to the development of a future software, however I strongly recommend it. Many great thoughts on music notation can be found there (maybe not what we all agree), and what I like the most is a modest approach of the author. Daniel S names o...