NOTATIO

Thanks, odod. And Merry Christmas to you and all of the Notat.io family!

I am sorry, Schonbergian, but I'd have to see examples to comment further. As far as I know, Bach adhered to the standard beaming rules used for instrumental and vocal music used up until the relatively recent time when some composes started to beam vocal music like instrumental music.

Chopin's Etude op 25 no 4 is an ingenious study in rhythm as well as in left hand agility. It also makes an excellent case study because the composer's MS with his own corrections still exists as does a copy of the same by his student Fontana. Three kinds of texture alternate in this piece: 1. It st...

does it also apply to a composer's computer notation? I hope that I am not missing the point, but as far as computer "manuscripts", it would seem to me to be far simpler to ascertain the composer's intentions than with handwritten manuscripts being engraving by other parties, since the co...

With other composers than Chopin, how are we to know when an example falls into 1 or 2 rather than 3? This is an excellent question, and I plan to give examples by other composers. Chopin is actually an exceptionally difficult case, because of the number of conflicting original sources, his constan...

Thanks for your comment, OCTO, which advances the discussion. As you say, the MS is visually appealing because it has visual logic given the crowding. However, the crowding is the unfortunate result of pre-lined music paper and there is no apparent musical logic to the notation. As far as I am conce...

Wonderrful, odod!

In this example from the same work, the unusual up stem on the third left hand eighth note in measure two would suggest the start of a new group on the second downbeat. Yet the second eighth note surely starts the new group because 1. notationally, Chopin would have beamed the first two eighth notes...

Some unusual stem direction in manuscripts is not meaningful and should not be preserved in engraved editions. An example from the Chopin's Etude op. 25 no. 6:

The shift to up stems in the second measure is purely the result of crowding:

tisimst wrote: ↑18 Dec 2017, 05:26 I think you are having waaaaaaay too much fun, odod XD

Terrific, odod. I assume that you are working your way toward having all the text look handwritten, including text expressions, tempo markings, title, composer etc.