NOTATIO

I've been trying, as much as I can, to have right hand on the upper staff, and left hand on the lower staff. Most of the time this comes quite naturally since the registers match treble and bass clefs. But there are these instances where everything is in a relatively high register, and it's really i...

Thank-you all for the input.
Sometimes you've lived with a piece for so long, and seen it engraved in a certain way for so long, that it's hard to stand back and find better ways of doing it.

I ended up breaking the beams, and adding the slurs that SHOULD have been present in the first version...
it seems cleaner now.

Hautbois: I tried with the broken beams, and it gives a bunch of two-note pairs, which I find makes the measure overly busy.
Unless I extended the beam of the "on the beat" pairs... but that looks overly fussy as well.

I have a piano part where I WAS trying to keep the material separated (right hand on upper staff, left hand on lower), but I've come across a measure where I need octave lines and can't quite figure out how to notate it. in the image below, the grand staff shows the original material minus the octav...

Just a quick correction: the up-to-date version of Dorico presently available is not 6.1, but rather 6.0.1

why not simply split that last octave into right hand / left hand. that way they share the same rhythm, and avoid the rests issue completely. and there's time to do the short leap for the right hand down to the top G of the octave. Splitting them also gives the pianist a tiny bit more leeway playing...

thank-you for your input john.

By the way, the forum is incredibly PAINFULLY slow for the last few days.

yes, 8th notes.
here and there there are syncopations, or half-beat moments with a triplet of 8th notes, which are ok as the music does wander back and forth at a rapid pace from groupings of four 8ths to six 8ths.
So I'll change the complete half bars of triplets to half bars of sextuplets.

I'm looking at a score of mine that I'm engraving, and this is supposed to be the final version. It dawns on me that the entire last movement (except for a few tiny spots) is in a very fast 2/2. Measures tend to be evenly split, all eighth notes, or sequences of tuplets. But now I look at this and t...