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by RMK
01 Sep 2021, 18:36
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Proofreading suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 8709

Re: Proofreading suggestions

Note that on page 73 of the Schirmer manual there are items specific to SCORE. This brings up the issue that some music apps have idiosyncrasies (ahem...bugs) that one needs to be aware of. For example, In Dorico there is a bug pertaining to divisi staves where the software may add extraneous natura...
by RMK
19 Aug 2021, 19:03
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: bow marking question (strings)
Replies: 2
Views: 2151

Re: bow marking question (strings)

Side by side over the first note, no parens needed.

(As an orchestral librarian for 25 years)
by RMK
09 May 2021, 18:54
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Legitmacy of Dotted Tuplets
Replies: 10
Views: 6403

Re: Legitmacy of Dotted Tuplets

ConnorGBrown wrote: 09 May 2021, 13:57
Though I'd still be interested in seeing if anyone ever writes dotted tuplets. I'm not sure I've seen on the in the wild, but composers can be crazy in the most tedious of ways.

Thanks!
Elliott Carter
by RMK
18 Apr 2021, 14:22
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Placing of a clef change.
Replies: 10
Views: 5234

Re: Placing of a clef change.

I don't see how else you could have notated it due to the Violin cue.
by RMK
15 Mar 2021, 13:47
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Notating Alternate Sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2898

Re: Notating Alternate Sections

In the score, I would lay out each of the B sections one after the other, carefully marked to start at the beginning of a left page and end on a right page. Then the conductor can clip pages together to avoid the non-played section. You mean the librarian, of course! :) To the OP: You didn't specif...
by RMK
24 Feb 2021, 14:22
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Ugly slurs
Replies: 3
Views: 2506

Ugly slurs

Check out this excerpt from John Adams' Hallelujah Junction, most likely engraved with SCORE.

https://twitter.com/ElizaMcCarthy_1/sta ... 88770?s=20

Have you ever seen uglier slurs?

(Actually, I have: see the same composer's Gnarly Buttons).
by RMK
21 Feb 2021, 00:15
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: Piazzolla - Libertango
Replies: 3
Views: 6753

Re: Piazzolla - Libertango

Most of his oeuvre is through Tonos:

Tonos Music oHG
Hinterbildstraße 8a
78234 Engen
Germany
Phone: +49 7733 99640-0
Fax: +49 7733 99640-25
mail@tonosmusic.com
www.tonosmusic.com
US agent: Alfred
by RMK
15 Jan 2021, 15:00
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Scalable Vector Graphics (inkscape, illustrator)
Replies: 18
Views: 11971

Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (inkscape, illustrator)

@Octo: Very well said, and I agree 200%! Once, when I was an orchestral librarian, a composer submitted a work that had many of the problems you mentioned. When I pointed this out to him he replied that he couldn't be bothered with lazy musicians who couldn't figure it out for themselves, and that h...
by RMK
22 Dec 2020, 15:17
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Does anyone know what Strauss intended?
Replies: 9
Views: 5743

Re: Does anyone know what Strauss intended?

I've known bassoon players who could reach the c above this g.

So, no, not impossible.

There was a Philadelphia Orchestra bassoon audition long ago where one of the requirements was to play a 4 octave F major scale.

Now if the dynamic was ppp, that might be another story...