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- 22 Apr 2024, 16:31
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Spacing problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13949
Re: Spacing problem
I wouldn't see any issue with moving the violin notes even closer to each other, and have seen this several times in published scores to save space.
- 13 Dec 2023, 03:25
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: What a difference a line makes!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 171827
Re: What a difference a line makes!
I don't find the extension line on "For" to serve any real purpose - the left-aligned lyric text should be enough for a melisma that only covers that much horizontal space. For "Christ" it definitely aids in readability. I am very partial to the Baerenreiter custom of placing pun...
- 12 Jul 2023, 17:26
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Fonts for Lyrics
- Replies: 39
- Views: 108894
Re: Fonts for Lyrics
I'd try to show a little bit of an extension line in those tied notes: bb. 60, 63. I did a bit of work for a publisher recently; and while their output is not generally anything to shout about, they were insistent that there was always the slightest bit of an extension line, even if it meant moving...
- 28 Jun 2023, 16:15
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: How crowded a SSATB score should be?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 21950
Re: How crowded a SSATB score should be?
Older scores would often place the dynamics on the stave to solve this sort of issue. I believe it is a very favourable solution.
- 11 Feb 2023, 02:35
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Slurs Ugly or necessary?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8867
Re: Slurs Ugly or necessary?
I prefer the voices to be split in hymns, as is done in all the highest-quality English hymnals. It makes reading the independent progression of each part much easier as a singer.
- 15 Nov 2022, 02:16
- Forum: Texts&Blogs
- Topic: Edition of Scarlatti K. 2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16866
Re: Edition of Scarlatti K. 2
It continues to astound me that these works are not more well-known by pianists today. As an outsider to the piano world, it always seems like anything before Beethoven and Schubert (with the exception of Bach) tends to get the short end of the stick. I wonder how much of that is the issue with edit...
- 09 Oct 2022, 01:49
- Forum: Texts&Blogs
- Topic: The biggest scandal in music publishing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 54235
Re: The biggest scandal in music publishing
Generally I find most piano fingerings for Baroque music to be over-fussy, but the simplified fingerings that one can use on the harpsichord and organ are not always practicable because the modern piano takes longer to speak and variety in articulation is more easily expressed through force rather t...
- 11 Dec 2021, 16:00
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Notating a bar
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32012
Re: Notating a bar
Vierne, Pieces de fantaisie - Cathédrales:
- 11 Dec 2021, 15:48
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Notating a bar
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32012
Re: Notating a bar
Widor, Symphonie No. 7:
If played as written, the passage is practically impossible, let alone playable with any sense of legato. Divided intuitively, it is straightforward.
If played as written, the passage is practically impossible, let alone playable with any sense of legato. Divided intuitively, it is straightforward.
- 09 Dec 2021, 22:24
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Notating a bar
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32012
Re: Notating a bar
But in my experience, the note distribution in piano music written by the finest composers (=great musical thinker) who were also fine pianists is almost always the best distribution. The reason is that they didn't compose music and then fit it to the hands of a pianist. The composition and the act...