NOTATIO

MichelRE wrote: ↑22 Aug 2024, 20:52
I guess I could simply always write long notes as 3+2, then remove as many of the tied notes in the other passages that aren't whole-measure notes.

Sounds good. 3+2 seems to be more natural or basic than 2+3 (which is a kind of syncope).

I don't hear the music as divided 3+2 or 2+3, but rather as a smooth 5 (down, left, center, right, up.) I can change the subdivision, but then some measures will have some instruments with tied notes in different places from other instruments. Just how "wrong" would it be for me to simply...

You are more lucky than me then.

It's still there for me.

still the same

David Ward wrote: ↑04 Aug 2024, 13:19 For one reason or another, when I use Finale I sometimes have a habit of changing things which might have been best left as they were.

You are not the only one. Whether the problem is with Finale or somewhere else, I'm not sure.

Probably this section would be conducted according to the regular alternation of 6/8 and 3/4, so an independent TS just for Cl. 1 may be confusing to the player. Together with Fred G. Unn's suggestion the TS 's should be quite clear as they are.

You are welcome, John. I can see some difficulties in swithching to Finale Maestro, but it's possible to change the font for a specified category only, like rests, in Document Options. Then, as the whole-rest glyph isn't qite correct as you say, it feels a little like "two steps forward and one...

Having no jobs at the moment I experimented a little with whole and half rests with ledger lines (as I call them, because I think that's what they are, really). In Finale 27 you have access to the SMuFL fonts. In Finale Maestro the preselected whole and half rests have the same too short ledger line...

These are really very minor considerations, but to my eye I think it would look more natural or expected if the whole rest in 199 were aligned with the bottom staffline, and if the ledger line of the whole rest in 200 were a little longer, as in both the Schenker and -53 Henle edition. (In Schenker ...