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- 04 Jul 2025, 04:12
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Staff and leger line thicknesses
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4938
Re: Staff and leger line thicknesses
It's better, but you want to make sure it's evenly darker - now elements like the hairpins and bar numbers seem too thin in comparison. I would also even out the slurs by thickening the ends slightly but thinning the centre
- 25 Jun 2025, 15:06
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: First engraving project with Dorico
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1885
Re: First engraving project with Dorico
As a singer, I wouldn't breathe twice with the commas but simply taper at the end of the word to show the lyric phrasing without breaking the vocal line - in other words, exactly what a decent pianist would do when presented with the slurring alone.
- 06 Apr 2025, 00:39
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Confusing minim and crotchet combination
- Replies: 13
- Views: 186881
Re: Confusing minim and crotchet combination
Organists have the advantage of the pedalboard to take the bass voice, freeing both hands to more easily secure legato within S-A-T alone. In your given example, even with my small hands and no pedalboard, all the seemingly difficult intervals are easily played by taking the tenor voice in the RH. I...
- 14 May 2024, 02:12
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: From Plate to Page with Dorico
- Replies: 9
- Views: 37901
Re: From Plate to Page with Dorico
A piece of advice about improving your keyboard skills: if your have the patience, the biggest bang for your buck would be to play all the three and four note major and minor chords (all inversions and possible fingerings) chromatically with both hands an octave apart throughout the entire keyboard...
- 22 Apr 2024, 16:31
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Spacing problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 67954
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: 216876
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: 210173
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: 78898
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: 13872
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: 50033
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...