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- 21 May 2023, 15:14
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Combining a rest
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7721
Re: Combining a rest
I agree with both David and John. Definitely not a combined rest here because it's followed by other notes on the same beat. And, broken secondary beams (like on the last eighth) can make the notation look much more complicated than it is. In my opinion it's also rather ugly, but that's me, not Fina...
- 18 May 2023, 05:52
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Position of clef change
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2294
Re: Position of clef change
Many composers have combined the two systems in just the way that you are describing. I think that that is probably the best course. I agree! Minting hard rules is risky as we've seen with Gould. Just a tiny detail: In your example, David, you place the bass clef before the eighth rest in m. 146, b...
- 05 May 2023, 11:05
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Interesting notation in Henle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10966
Re: Interesting notation in Henle
According to my Italian dictionary 'acciaccatura' may mean 'bruise', so maybe you should use them with some caution.
- 29 Apr 2023, 18:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Dotted minim (half) rest?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3339
Re: Dotted minim (half) rest?
Here (in 4/4), it feels more adequate to show the middle of the measure. (Notes don't have to, but rests do.)
- 07 Apr 2023, 21:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A note in Rachmaninoff
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2966
Re: A note in Rachmaninoff
I remember a phrase in contemporary music during the 80's I think it was when an amazingly dissonant piece would suddenly end with some soothing major and minor triads. The relief was palpable in the audience who were convinced that they had just heard something quite profound and wonderful. Sounds...
- 07 Apr 2023, 21:52
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A note in Rachmaninoff
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2966
Re: A note in Rachmaninoff
John Ruggero wrote: ↑07 Apr 2023, 21:35 I remember a phrase in contemporary music during the 80's I think it was when an amazingly dissonant piece would suddenly end with some soothing major and minor triads. The relief was palpable in the audience who were convinced that they had just heard something quite profound and wonderful.
- 07 Apr 2023, 20:27
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A note in Rachmaninoff
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2966
Re: A note in Rachmaninoff
Just a thought: R. seems to place contrasting chords on the last (dotted quarter) beat of the measure. I can't say I hear what he plays actually, but it seems logical that the chord in question should be quite clearly contrasting. The harmony D#-6 (+5 if you like) with a flatted 3 on top is rather m...
- 31 Mar 2023, 07:18
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18945
Re: how to show dotted rest
Beethoven almost always shows all three beats in each group when rests are involved in compound meters. And as far I know, no edition has ever consolidated these particular sets of 16th rests. It would change the meaning of the music not to see and feel every beat in ms. 132-133 above. Absolutely! ...
- 27 Mar 2023, 08:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18945
Re: how to show dotted rest
To nuance this a little: When you do engravings of more modernistic (or "avant-garde") music, it's like you have passed a threshold into another room. There, all kinds of made-up notations may feel relevant as an integral part of the style. But, syncopated rests, or extended beams in Bach'...
- 26 Mar 2023, 12:33
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18945
Re: how to show dotted rest
Poor musicians, when they are to make themselves accustomed to Tom Dick and Harry's individual notations! What happened to the belief in traditional notation? It may not be more right in itself, academically, but it certainly makes reading music easier, and safer, because it's more familiar - if we ...