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- 09 Jan 2018, 18:18
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Pitch bracket notation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11724
Re: Pitch bracket notation
I agree with the misgivings suggested above. I haven't always liked graphic notation, but it's always seemed like it's sprung out of an inability for traditional notation to represent the genuine wishes of the composer. This doesn't seem to do that, and merely complicates matters without providing m...
- 08 Jan 2018, 18:48
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Does score quality influence performance?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12377
Does score quality influence performance?
Have there been any real studies on this beyond anecdotes? I always feel as though I'm a more active musician and more "guided" in my musicianship when I'm playing from a properly engraved score with human touches--as though the printing itself and its warmth is one and the same with the m...
- 08 Jan 2018, 18:45
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Henle Blog and App
- Replies: 16
- Views: 33286
Re: Henle Blog and App
I like the guy who dismisses the entire body of hand-engraved scores because they aren't "clear" or "high-res" (which is total hogwash--I have the Dover reprint of the 1892 Breitkopf plates for Schubert's string quartets, and it's about as clear as any computer score nowadays)--b...
- 08 Jan 2018, 01:42
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
- Replies: 7
- Views: 22350
Re: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
I've definitely seen the "publisher model" used by a bunch of smaller Canadian publishers in the 1980s, and one of the most popular hymnals is also typeset with one.
- 03 Jan 2018, 00:47
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Most popular engraving programs?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16828
Re: Most popular engraving programs?
I was under the impression that SCORE does not use fonts for any musical symbols (perhaps excepting dynamics?), but is entirely vector based. I suppose you can alter settings that affect the shape of the notes and other symbols. It's really amazing (to me, anyway) that the the application that almo...
- 02 Jan 2018, 22:24
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Most popular engraving programs?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16828
Re: Most popular engraving programs?
@odod: Agreed on Schott, especially. Their font is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen on computer, even if I don't agree with all of its stylistic elements.
- 02 Jan 2018, 04:14
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Brahms vs Joachim on articulation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16319
Re: Brahms vs Joachim on articulation
Bringing this discussion back towards Brahms, I found this articulation in his Second Symphony (violins). brahms.JPG I see this either as one legato group with bowings also indicated, or as two legato groups with a "phrase" indicated, leaning towards the second interpretation because of th...
- 02 Jan 2018, 04:06
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Most popular engraving programs?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16828
Re: Most popular engraving programs?
Sibelius seems to be the most popular among modern European publishers, unfortunately. Finale seems more popular in North America and among engravers that love customization (such as us). If you count the drivel that passes as "music notation" nowadays by laypeople, MuseScore is probably t...
- 22 Dec 2017, 20:35
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Composers vs Engravers: Contraindications
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14003
Re: Composers vs Engravers: Contraindications
Schonbergian, could you post a Bach example? I can't think of anything like what you describe in the non-organ keyboard works. In any case, I try to maintain Bach's notation, as with every composer, since I consider it "different" but not obsolete and perfectly readable to current musicia...
- 21 Dec 2017, 15:09
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Composers vs Engravers: Contraindications
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14003
Re: Composers vs Engravers: Contraindications
I agree with David's point. Can a "notational Urtext" such as you describe exist in the modern computer world? And what about "obsolete" notational practice, such as Bach flagging individual notes in some of his fugues? Is that merely a product of his time or is it something mean...