NOTATIO

Just wanted to mention the Julliard Store currently has the 9x12 Henle sketchbooks 20% off (through today). At $4.50 they aren't expensive to begin with, LOL, but I usually buy these 10 at a time to use for lessons as they are cheap enough to just give out to students. They are a pretty useful size ...

It's a few weeks old now, so many of you might have seen it already, but Tantacrul recently had an interesting video on the history of music notation along with proposed systems and reforms. (Sorry if it was posted already and I missed it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4 He sets it up w...

JJP wrote: ↑19 Nov 2023, 01:19 I usually am not this decisive about notation questions, emphasizing that context rules the day; but that notation is simply wrong.

Good, glad to know others are in agreement that this is incorrect!

Good to know I'm not the only one that thought that was incorrect! I flipped through the rest of the book, and he didn't have any other additive time sigs like that, but did have a couple of things like this, which are much more straightforward: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53340426014_8b406b...

I'm trying to make my way through the Karg-Elert "30 Studies for Flute" (Op. 107), and found this metrical curiosity on #9: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53340152613_8c177b7dfe_c.jpg The 2/8 + 3/8 obviously means sometimes you feel it in 2 and sometimes in 3, but that's not typically...

Very cool! ... and now I want one, LOL!

I love open key and use it all the time in my own work. I think the brass players' complaint is that they are used to hearing certain scale degrees a certain way, and when one uses a modal key sig to simply cut down on accidentals it creates a conflict between what they see and what they are used to...

As I understand modal key signatures, in fx E Dorian there would be two sharps etc. Now, wouldn't a key signature with F sharp and C sharp be quite unproblematic, regardless of which scales and harmonies there are? Or, have I misunderstood you? Key signatures, if used, aren't just to minimize accid...

So, JJP's idea of asking the performers themselves isn't a bad idea. How many of you colleagues have actually done that? Sure! That's where I've learned a lot! I'm a fairly active performer myself, so in addition to my own preferences, I see what others pencil into their parts, and hear what they g...

I think there is something to be said for maintaining stem direction in historical work. I think there's also less of a reading/sightreading issue with solo piano work as it will most likely not be dropped in front of a pianist in a studio to be sightread at a recording. (For the same reason, smalle...