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- 21 Jan 2018, 19:03
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
- Replies: 19
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Re: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
Great question, and I will attempt to restrain myself. I assume that you know about Schenker's theoretical work. What is often not known is that as a very fine practical musician, his primary aim was interpretation and composition. He felt that the nineteen century had misunderstood what had been ac...
- 19 Jan 2018, 04:17
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 29472
Re: So what is generally considered the best all-around Beethoven piano sonatas edition?
Heinrich Schenker's edition, now very inexpensively reprinted by Dover, has the most natural and musical fingering and the best help with ornamentation etc., and is the one that I require my students to use. It was one of the first practical editions to make serious use of the original sources and, ...
- 16 Jan 2018, 16:02
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Henle Blog and App
- Replies: 16
- Views: 32289
Re: Henle Blog and App
Thanks, Schonbergian. There is a new post on the Henle blog in agreement. Perhaps others will express their opinion. Here is a golden opportunity to express how one feels about the quality of their current engraving directly to Henle...
- 16 Jan 2018, 15:33
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Pitch bracket notation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11373
Re: Pitch bracket notation
This system flies in the face of Western musical notation starting with neumes. Since the 1200-year interaction of our notational system with the development of our music has made the two inseparable, all attempts to severe them have and will fail.
- 10 Jan 2018, 22:39
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20896
Re: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
I think that the slurs were probably pressed on with Notaset for short and medium and drawn with instruments for the longer and more complex ones. But I never got to that far...
- 08 Jan 2018, 18:19
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Henle Blog and App
- Replies: 16
- Views: 32289
Re: Henle Blog and App
I just responded to the two comments on my critical post at:
http://www.henle.de/blog/en/2017/11/13/ ... ahms-gade/
It seems doubtful that Henle would use an army of freelancers, but if there are only three engravers on staff, they are working very hard!
http://www.henle.de/blog/en/2017/11/13/ ... ahms-gade/
It seems doubtful that Henle would use an army of freelancers, but if there are only three engravers on staff, they are working very hard!
- 07 Jan 2018, 23:34
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico 1.2 released
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26391
Re: Dorico 1.2 released
Sounds great! Thanks very much, Florian.
- 07 Jan 2018, 14:35
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20896
Re: Musicwriter - in use throughout the world
When I was a student in NYC, I spent several weeks engraving on one of those for a small choral music publisher. They were happy to give me one-on-one instruction, since so few people knew how to use one. Coordinating music and text was harrowing. I eventually quit to have more time for piano practi...
- 03 Jan 2018, 18:37
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Brahms vs Joachim on articulation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16003
Re: Brahms vs Joachim on articulation
It's a two-level legato mark. They begin to be seen in the later Romantic stye, but I have seen them in earlier manuscripts (but usually omitted by the composer or editor in the first editions as esoteric.) Classic style composers could use short legato slurs without fear of performers clipping the ...
- 27 Dec 2017, 17:11
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: The treble clef as handwritten by great composers
- Replies: 56
- Views: 83880
Re: The treble clef as handwritten by great composers
I agree completely with jan. odod's new font is an instant classic, and I want to buy a copy as soon as it is available for Finale.