Middle-line stem direction

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OCTO
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Re: Middle-line stem direction

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John Ruggero wrote: 05 Feb 2017, 16:45 operate on a "higher level" than our standard ones. They tend think in large numbers of tones when assigning stem direction
What an excellent observation. Being a composer myself, I tend as well to "adjust" my scores in a way that breaks the standard rules, with my inner purpose.
Looking forward to this topic!
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Re: Middle-line stem direction

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Thanks, OCTO.!

I think that there is actually a set of rules that they are following, because, having worked with this material for a while, I can very often predict the non-standard stem directions that they will use.
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