I have ordered this new edition (the Second) and received it recently.
As stated above, some music examples are far from being "the state of engraving art", but the book for itself is definitely EXTREMELY useful. Any composer, editor, engraver or copyist should have it. Order it now.
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- 30 Aug 2016, 04:41
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: How to Write for PERCUSSION by Samuel Z. Solomon
- Replies: 8
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- 17 Aug 2016, 21:21
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
You are most welcome. You can check this for your ideas about grace notes and more free notation. http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=185#p3157 http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35#p451 and http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37#p511 in Finale http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37...
- 17 Aug 2016, 12:01
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
It is a custom font made by a friend of mine. Use symbols 1, 2, 3 and 4 to get different waving sizes. Let me know if it works.
- 17 Aug 2016, 07:28
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
Another way in using grace notes, 100 years after Ravel, in Zivkovic's (well, mine) "On the Guarding of the Heart":
https://youtu.be/JafpIyzXtfw
https://youtu.be/JafpIyzXtfw
- 17 Aug 2016, 07:22
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
If you are coming from the visual arts, and have a very good knowledge in music theory or composition, it might happen that you will do very good music in the future. Many aspects of composing is "visualisation" of the sound (yet NOT in positivistic way, rather metaphysical!). ...and I'm s...
- 16 Aug 2016, 17:57
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Single note-measure placement
- Replies: 12
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Re: Single note-measure placement
Is the excessive shift to the right caused by the repeat-ties? They seem to be present in both images, and although one could argue for how long those ties should be (I think they're fine), I wonder if the engravers would have placed them at the same position in the bar had there NOT been any repea...
- 16 Aug 2016, 17:55
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
p.s. otherwise, just removing these slashes makes the perfect sense for me for the moment.
- 16 Aug 2016, 17:51
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
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Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
IMHO I think it is overnotated. The slashes here don't have any function, since it is perfectly valid rhythm, and the player will be forced to play it exactly. (if you don't want to be played exactly, you can write rubato - but the question is if it is possible in the overall texture). I would find ...
- 16 Aug 2016, 11:24
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Single note-measure placement
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17101
Single note-measure placement
There was a discussion about placement of the in the measure (centring it), here in Messiaen we have a similar idea:
Quite interesting!- 16 Aug 2016, 03:24
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25171
Re: Meaning of a big slash through a note's stem and beam (contemporary works)
Yes, that is very common in the contemporary music. They usually means a free rhythm, free tempo, or simplyfing the notation picture. So for instance to write a very complex tuplet it is just shown a group of notes with the slash. The bigger slash is not different from the smaller slash, it is just ...