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At the moment, there is encouraging interaction between users and MakeMusic at their Feature Request Forum. https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200449177-Finale-Feature-Requests?sort_by=recent_activity Robert Patterson has submitted several posts there, for example. It might be a...

Many composers have had a different attitude toward musical notation than many editors and engravers, which is what I have tried to call attention to in the threads called Composers vs Engravers.

David, I am glad you agree. You probably know this little story, but for anyone who doesn't: Brahms was with his gang at the local tavern, and someone rose and proposed a toast "to our greatest composer" looking directly at Brahms. Brahms got up and raised his stein saying: "Yes, to M...

OCTO. is so right. Context is everything. If this were written by Joe Blow in 4/4, I would say B, as I answered at FinaleForum. But since it is by the world's greatest composer and in 8/8. I would leave it exactly as it appears in the autograph. Mozart is doing something special and beaming against ...

Slurs (when used properly) are helpful in vocal music as in instrumental music in that they show the small decorative units, which encourages the singer (or player) to emphasize the most important note and deemphasize the less. Without them, the music looks one-dimensional with every note equally im...

MJCube wrote: ↑17 Jan 2017, 12:35 How in the world does that appear in the parts, I wonder? Perhaps the other instrument must be cued in each.

The composer is practically begging for it!

The entire screen page was filled with those circular icons, so I couldn't even see this thread. But Knut told me about refreshing the screen and that cleaned it up.

That looks very good to me, Harpsichordmaker. The distance of the figures from the staff looks best when the systems are not too close together as on most of the pages. But if the systems are close, the figures might be a little closer to the staves they are associated with. For example, the first f...

In case you are looking for a general impression, I find the DS font much more visible and therefore more appropriate for figured bass than Opus. However, the symbols are a little large and positioned a little far from the staff and from each other vertically for my taste. On the other hand, the 76 ...

And on the subject of interestingly shaped slurs, I noticed some wonderfully striking ones encompassing several instrumental staves at a time in the score of Berg's Lulu... I can imagine, David, given some of the beauties I see in the vocal score available at IMSLP! (USA and Canada only) His Piano ...