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by OCTO
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
Views: 25012

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...
by OCTO
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
Views: 25012

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.
by OCTO
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)
Replies: 21
Views: 25012

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
by OCTO
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
Views: 25012

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...
by OCTO
16 Aug 2016, 17:57
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Single note-measure placement
Replies: 12
Views: 16762

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...
by OCTO
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
Views: 25012

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.
by OCTO
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
Views: 25012

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 ...
by OCTO
16 Aug 2016, 11:24
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Single note-measure placement
Replies: 12
Views: 16762

Single note-measure placement

There was a discussion about placement of the :6 in the measure (centring it), here in Messiaen we have a similar idea:
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Quite interesting!
by OCTO
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: 25012

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 ...
by OCTO
11 Aug 2016, 14:53
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tempo alterations font styles
Replies: 19
Views: 24156

Re: Tempo alterations font styles

MJCube wrote:I follow older practice and use a roman font for markings that set the tempo and italics for tempo modifications.
What sizes and styles you use? Italic = size, bold?