NOTATIO

I have never used 9.5x12.5 paper even if, for me, the bigger paper the better! If you're in the US, this is surprisingly easy to obtain with just a couple of inquiries. Obviously you can't just go to Staples and get it, but virtually any paper supplier can obtain it and cut it for you. For supplier...

I typically use a 7mm (size 3) staff for single staff parts on 9.5"x12.5" paper. In my template that results in 11 staves per page from page 2 onward, but in practice once filled with music it is usually 10 or even 9. For new music that is likely to be under-rehearsed, clarity of layout is...

Someone on Twitter proposed this: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51671718380_936cd34b08_z.jpg It looks pretty strange, but has any publisher attempted something like that before? Obviously publishers like Alphonse Leduc don't extend the stems into the beams ("French beaming") but I do...

My Patterson Beams only does what you are showing if the maximum angle is set to a very small angle. I have mine set 10 degrees and up depending on the situation. I forgot that I had been messing around with my PB settings. I removed the registry key to reset it to default and now get this: https:/...

John Ruggero wrote: ↑10 Nov 2021, 13:21 I have thoughts, but they aren't very nice, so I will keep them to myself.

Please share! You've probably spent at least as much or more time looking at piano music as anyone on here, so I'd be curious what you'd prefer to see here.

Since Benwiggy first posted the Dorico slurs and beams thread last month, I've probably changed my beaming defaults about 100 times, LOL! For reference, here's Dorico 3.5's factory settings: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51670334239_c2fec4d43a_z.jpg ... and my own current settings: https://liv...

Tantacrul posted this image on Twitter a few hours ago. Top is MuseScore 3, bottom is MS4. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51670474540_711b464588_o.png Like John's recent Henle examples, it seems to be following the trend for longer stems and more shallow beam angles. I think it's identical to w...

San Andreas Press has been defunct since at least 2014. There are still a couple of email addresses on that site: stephen@newnotations.com score@scoremus.com No idea if either are active, but could be worth following up if the OP is still interested. The website newnotations.com redirects to https:...

The inflation rate between 1991 and today has been almost 95% (in USD) so that $749 Finale price tag would be in $1,459 today's dollars. Gulp! I think I remember it being $600 when I bought it in 1993 or 1994, but I was in school so it was half off. Not a lot of info out there but looks like Encore ...

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole today and stumbled on a review summarizing the state of music notation software 30 years ago. For anyone with a JSTOR account the review is simply titled "Music Notation Software" and is by Karl Signell, published in the Journal of the American Musicologica...