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- 02 Nov 2024, 13:44
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: About the use of rehearsal marks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 106
Re: About the use of rehearsal marks
The older style was to do exactly what you describe: rehearsal letters only at places where a conductor would be likely to restart in rehearsal that are not already marked by a repeat mark, double bar, change of tempo or key, repeat ending etc. This limited the number of rehearsal letters at a time ...
- 01 Nov 2024, 12:46
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Slur directions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 138
Re: Slur directions
To me, it looks like the composer couldn't make up his mind, at least at first. He tries following the rule you mentioned, doesn't like the look of it, and tries the reverse, seems to like that better. Tries it one more time in violin 2, compares it to violin 1, and decides to go with under slurs, w...
- 30 Oct 2024, 20:01
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Diderot - Encyclopédie
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1240
Re: Diderot - Encyclopédie
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- 23 Oct 2024, 21:10
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A Centered Beam in Bach
- Replies: 0
- Views: 780
A Centered Beam in Bach
In the second movement of his Italian Concerto, Bach uses continual centered beams to distinguish two groups of instruments represented in the left hand: Italian Concerto 2 Ex 1.png Or was it just a convenient way to save space? Later editions modernize this notation because of the great difficultie...
- 15 Oct 2024, 01:20
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Bass clef oddity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2364
Re: Bass clef oddity
Yes I am, NeeraWM. Have you seen this?
- 11 Oct 2024, 11:56
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: clef change problem for viola
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1404
Re: clef change problem for viola
Composers instinctively don't like breaking up melodies visually, and rightly so. In this case, it's even worse because a clef change would drop the melody at its very climax and make what is supposed to look high, look low. I would try to find an early logical place to change to treble clef so that...
- 09 Oct 2024, 13:17
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Stem Direction-the Long View
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1905
Re: Stem Direction-the Long View
Yes it is, Felipe Copaja! Do you mean this spot: Mozart 457.1.png If so, it is non-controversial. All editions engrave it just like that since there is a three voice imitation going on there that starts between the hands. Note the half rest that Mozart felt necessary to show that the left hand is re...
- 09 Oct 2024, 13:01
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Stem Direction-the Long View
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1905
Re: Stem Direction-the Long View
You are very welcome, NeeraWM. I always enjoy our discussions. Serious discussion is what this forum is all about. I do want to clarify that I didn't mean that Mozart was (necessarily) trying to convey an emotional message consciously. It may have more that he wrote it like that spontaneously becaus...
- 08 Oct 2024, 18:16
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Stem Direction-the Long View
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1905
Re: Stem Direction-the Long View
To me, it can't be a mistake, because it was harder to write with up stems than down stems since there is more clearance below than above. And this is the second time the passage occurs; the first time also has the same unique up stems. Definitely not a mistake. Mozart never added unnecessary rests ...
- 08 Oct 2024, 11:27
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Stem Direction-the Long View
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1905
Re: Stem Direction-the Long View
In such cases, I ask myself: Is it clear? If the answer is yes, I engrave exactly as the composer wrote it, without additions or subtractions, since a great composer almost always knows best. If the answer is no. I make the least possible change, while trying to stay as close to the original as poss...