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by David Ward
27 May 2025, 21:04
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Rests: which is better?
Replies: 6
Views: 1610

Re: Rests: which is better?

I think I will probably keep the first example, which was my original notation. There is a logic to the solution suggested by NorFonts, but it somehow seems wrong psychologically. Does that make any sense? Or am I being fanciful? This is a little piece I wrote twenty years ago, a short theme with si...
by David Ward
27 May 2025, 08:24
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Rests: which is better?
Replies: 6
Views: 1610

Rests: which is better?

Which of these rests in the RH last bar is better? ie Should the RH rests agree with the extra bass note in the LH, or should they ignore it?
by David Ward
07 May 2025, 19:57
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: sextuplets
Replies: 1
Views: 5056

sextuplets

Following on from a comment from John Ruggero here https://notat.io/viewtopic.php?t=1243&view=unread#unread I'm wondering why I wrote different bowing for simultaneous sextuplets in violin 1 and violin 2, and then ditto in cello 1 and cello 2 in 2012 as shown in the screenshot (this is a score I...
by David Ward
06 May 2025, 19:20
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplets
Replies: 5
Views: 2695

Re: Tuplets

This Finale file from 2012 (which I'm currently revising a little) is full of uneven triplets. To achieve the quaver then semiquaver (8th then 16th) combination for a triplet while in Speedy, I first keyed (on a Mac) Option>3 to specify a standard triplet (ie 3x in the space of 2x). I then entered a...
by David Ward
06 May 2025, 18:48
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: tuplets (3 vs 6) in 2/2
Replies: 5
Views: 2795

Re: tuplets (3 vs 6) in 2/2

If I understand you correctly, ie that this is about quaver (eighth note) tuplets, six to the half bar, I should go for sextuplets.
by David Ward
05 May 2025, 19:14
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplets
Replies: 5
Views: 2695

Re: Tuplets

You would probably get the most comprehensive reply if you go to the Finale Forum at https://www.finaleforum.com/index.php?sid=3bdf3fc2fb27ea641c2669cde51a14d6 If you don't get a reply over there, I will do my best to explain what I have been doing in Finale's Speedy Entry. I've no idea how to do it...
by David Ward
04 May 2025, 19:53
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Tantacrul video on Finale
Replies: 5
Views: 8946

Re: Tantacrul video on Finale

It's entertaining (for a while), although maybe a bit exaggerated about some things. eg As I'm sure you remember, it's easy enough (not obvious, I agree) to change a font globally in Finale via the menu Document>Data Check>Font Utilities, but in his video he makes a great jokey performance of not be...
by David Ward
30 Apr 2025, 16:56
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 6 released!
Replies: 12
Views: 10631

Re: Dorico 6 released!

Although I installed Dorico the day Finale announced its demise and offered the ‘cross-grade’, I have not yet taken the plunge to start working with it. Question: should I install Dorico 6 before I really do jump in (as I know I must)? My thought is that it's probably best to start with the latest a...
by David Ward
18 Mar 2025, 17:20
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: About the use of rehearsal marks
Replies: 7
Views: 43718

Re: About the use of rehearsal marks

In a large multi-movement, or even more a multi-scene and multi-act piece, numbered rehearsal marks that continue their sequence for the entire piece are a quick way to a given place when a question is asked if there are numerous bar number regions (and thus many bars 107 [eg]). 1st bassoon to DW at...
by David Ward
14 Mar 2025, 11:31
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Brahms' beaming, dots et al
Replies: 1
Views: 12095

Brahms' beaming, dots et al

I would be interested in comments from members of this forum about Brahms' notation here in his F minor Sonata Opus 120 No 1 (viola version) bars 184–186. (The example is from the Henle edition.) It seems clear and straightforward to me, but I expect one would not be encouraged to notate like this n...