NOTATIO

Dotting and articulating a note before it has been inserted seems aimed at those who type music only. It is inconceivable for someone who writes music using a pencil and paper.

Thanks, NicholasG, I appreciate that. I put in a suggestion to MM that they should incorporate a Illustrator-type pen tool to make these sort of tasks a bit easier. I haven't gotten a reply as yet. My very last thread at the MM music forum was such a request. I also mentioned that I made the same re...

Here is the Barber done in Finale with one slur only. The lack of sufficient control points is clear: Barber 1 slur Finale .jpg Here is one done in Finale with 3 slurs. I am not experienced in putting slurs together, but I find this result promising and at least better than the original edition whic...

Here is the Debussy slur done in Finale. It is one slur only and further tweaking is certainly possible. Such slurs are not difficult in Finale. It is the less common ones as well as the ability to tweak slurs to get exactly what one wants that is the problem,

One such case occurs on the last page of Prelude 5 from Book 1 of Debussy's Preludes: Debussy S-slur.jpg To expand on Knut's astute comment, Barber is concerned about the player making a good legato line at a place where there are things going against it: the leap of a ninth places the thumb on a bl...

That is a marked improvement and very encouraging. It looks more like software that I could actually use. But given all the care that has gone into Dorico, I don't understand why its default settings are so out of whack. Along with the problems that you have corrected: 1. the accidentals and note he...

You are welcome, MJCube. We often have a very similar viewpoint on these things. As you point out, engraving speed or convenience is really not an issue in this kind of work where one doesn't expect or want a program to make decisions of this kind. I want a program to give me as many tools as possib...

And thanks for the tip (no pun intended) about the long slur. This is the first time that I have encountered this issue with such intensity, because Chopin can sometimes run slurs over many lines of music continuously. So I will have to solve it one way or the other. It will be another learning expe...

Thanks, Knut. You are absolutely right about that beam; there is the classic wedge that one tries to avoid. At this point I have just let Finale do its thing using my settings, and I haven't done any hand adjustments to the beaming. The editorial work and basic engraving and layout is the first orde...

Knut, I will go back and clarify my original post. My example was to show what is printed in the Paderewski and Wiener Urtext scores, which I don't feel comfortable scanning and putting online for copyright reasons. It is not what I will actually engrave in my edition. Here is what will appear. I ha...