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by David Ward
30 Oct 2024, 21:20
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Art song question regarding author name
Replies: 5
Views: 871

Re: Art song question regarding author name

I don't know if this is or is not a help, but these screenshots show how I presented such things in a 45 minute collection of songs I wrote during Covid lockdown, with particular reference to a compact cycle of short poems by Kipling (as a ‘true’ 15 minute cycle rather than separate songs). Although...
by David Ward
23 Oct 2024, 22:09
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: First system indents
Replies: 13
Views: 1714

Re: First system indents

(and a quick question, there's a C in the piano left hand between two C# - 3rd measure beat 1 - but with no cautionary... is it a missing cautionary or a missing #? It is a missing cautionary… I'm away from home at present, and if things go to plan, not due back until about 8 December. I hope to ma...
by David Ward
23 Oct 2024, 10:45
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: First system indents
Replies: 13
Views: 1714

Re: First system indents

As it happens, since 2020 and Covid lockdown, I've written about 80 minutes worth of art songs, long and short, one voice and two, all with piano. The screenshot shows my invariable indent. Later systems have no stave names if solo and abbreviated voice names if duet (but nothing for the piano). Thi...
by David Ward
11 Oct 2024, 15:17
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: clef change problem for viola
Replies: 7
Views: 1416

Re: clef change problem for viola

Certainly the whole of the passage shown could be in the treble clef. In the 1960s I did a little work with a commercial music arranger who refused to use the alto clef and who wrote entire viola parts in the treble. The session musicians had no trouble reading what he wrote when an awkward copyist ...
by David Ward
08 Oct 2024, 11:14
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: The hide staves or not to hide them? That is the question!
Replies: 9
Views: 2109

Re: The hide staves or not to hide them? That is the question!

I think this depends largely on the individual score and on how much the instrumentation varies from system to system. In my own orchestral scores, whose orchestration tends to vary considerably from system to system, I aim to hide all empty staves except where doing so will leave too few staves, wh...
by David Ward
24 Sep 2024, 20:50
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Dynamics (probably stupid question)
Replies: 4
Views: 1391

Re: Dynamics (probably stupid question)

On the principle that it can do no harm and might do some good, I would repeat the :forte.
by David Ward
24 Sep 2024, 18:47
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tacet al fine
Replies: 1
Views: 1011

Re: Tacet al fine

This what I have done, without adverse comment, in the past. My Beyond the Far Haaf is a 55 minute symphonic cantata for two singers and large orchestra, in three substantial parts of unequal length. It has about seven eighths of the orchestra silent for the second half of Part 2 (the shortest of th...
by David Ward
13 Sep 2024, 20:45
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 34
Views: 36473

Re: The End of FINALE

My 12 year old desktop Mac Mini won't allow software capable of running Dorico 5, so my 9 year old MacBook is due to function for a while as my new desktop connecting to a large portrait orienting monitor etc etc. I'm just now typing this on a brand new MacBook which I plan to take with me on my aut...
by David Ward
12 Sep 2024, 11:10
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 34
Views: 36473

Re: The End of FINALE

I clicked on the link at 12.10 GMT and immediately got through…