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- 22 Jun 2023, 14:57
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"
- Replies: 14
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Re: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"
I know it's perfectly acceptable grammar but... it annoys me to read "one stave". I've grown up to know it as "one staff/ many staves."… … … In most parts of the UK a ‘staff’ is specific to a walking stick and at that perhaps a little old fashioned, eg the biblical ‘staff of Mos...
- 30 May 2023, 20:45
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: circa
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15284
Re: circa
… … … Isn't there any "one way" to write this circa abbreviation… … ? Probably not any one way, but I suggest Hector's D version as the one least likely to excite comment. As far as I can find, Gould has nothing to say on the subject. Another (perhaps whimsical) thought: the sign ≈ means ...
- 30 May 2023, 11:56
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: circa
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15284
Re: circa
D would be my preference. As for abbreviation full stops, these are now much less used in the UK than in the US (there are some other respects in which US English is now more old fashioned or traditional that ‘British English’ [whatever that tautology is supposed to mean - in Scotland it is not the ...
- 28 May 2023, 09:32
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Text layout page 1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6836
Re: Text layout page 1
It seems that both conventions co-exist. Which is used may at least partly depend upon nationality and/or period. Gould, on page 504 0f her book under the heading Information on the first page of music appears to recommend more or less what I have done, and what Michel has found in French songs. In ...
- 27 May 2023, 13:22
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Text layout page 1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6836
Re: Text layout page 1
As an addendum to this thread, I wonder how people might judge this layout when the writer of the words (who died in 1936) is given equal prominence to the (still living!) composer of the music? It is not so common in ‘art song’ to display the writer of the words in this way, although it is standard...
- 25 May 2023, 21:09
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Text layout page 1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6836
Re: Text layout page 1
Yes, I think I agree with OCTO despite the look of the second of my examples in which the DW name looks oddly orphaned. A random sample of scores from my shelves would seem to bear this out.
- 25 May 2023, 09:02
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Text layout page 1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6836
Re: Text layout page 1
FWIW here are three examples of my approach, each is a little different. I don't remember the logic for any of them, but each seemed to work in its own way.
- 21 May 2023, 11:23
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Combining a rest
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20648
Re: Combining a rest
Although I often favour double dots (see a recent thread on the Finale forum) I think this might be easier to read (with the two rests).
- 19 May 2023, 11:22
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Breaking beam
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1409
Re: Breaking beam
I think I might actually go for B, but it would depend on the circumstances. What instrument is this for? What in this context is implied by the tenuto articulation? The tempo, the general character of the music, the rhythmic patterns elsewhere &c &c &c might all influence the choice.
- 18 May 2023, 09:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Position of clef change
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2834
Re: Position of clef change
These are all interesting and helpful responses, which I shall ponder.
In this case things are kept simple and easy to change by the piece's being only 14 pages, 205 bars, eight and a half minutes, and without the need for parts et al.
In this case things are kept simple and easy to change by the piece's being only 14 pages, 205 bars, eight and a half minutes, and without the need for parts et al.