NOTATIO

I use the MOLA recommended paper sizes:
9x12 for parts.
9.5x12.5 for chamber music.
and orchestral scores range from 11x14 to 12x18.

these are all readily available at the Canadian Music Center, for members.

Mr_Incognito wrote: 17 Sep 2026, 22:44 For me a clear NOT.

your comment would be considerably more helpful if you explained why "not".

Dorico has been a godsend to me.
Once I understood how to adjust the default settings, I spent WAY less time making annoying little changes in my scores than I did with Finale.
Sometimes I would need to spend a month or two creating parts in Finale.
Now I may spend a few days.
There are always ...

thank-you Octo!

I know my violin concerto is no Brahms or Dvorak, it's far from being a virtuoso showcase for the instrument.
My goal was to write a FUN concerto, just brilliant and showy enough to amuse and keep an audience's attention.
So harmonically, there's nothing horribly modern about it ...

This one is good and easy. Please, please, remove the string numbering and fingering, it does nothing and creates a "notational dust".


oooo, ok.
will do.
I much prefer having a nice clear uncluttered score anyway.

ok, here is the full passage, on D and G strings, then later on E and A strings.

Okay, here's the alternate version, where I've modified the rhythm, and inserted rests.

I probably don't have to specify the strings being played, but didn't want to take a chance. the exact same pattern repeats a bit further on the 1st and 2nd strings, and I felt it more important to include the ...

from this notation, is it "obvious" that the initial notes on the beats (where there are two stems) are not double-stopped unison?

It looks funny if I cut out the first note on the lower string and replace it with a rest.

quite honestly, if people have difficulty understanding the intent here, I ...

I've struggled a bit with the use of only French in my scores.
I find that far too often the French equivalent of a single word in Italian is often a long clumsy sentence, and then it doesn't even quite have the same connotations anyway.

Also, "stiffly and mechanically" isn't really a "tempo indication". It's an expressive marking. It's more about HOW the music should be played than what tempo it should be played at.

I'd also suggest that "animando poco a poco" isn't really a "starting tempo". I'd choose an actual starting tempo ...

Please also put 'dolce' in italic.


For some reason, Dorico isn't putting that in italic. it normally puts dynamic prefixes and suffixes in italic, I don't know why it's not doing it in this case.
I've removed it anyway, it wasn't absolutely necessary. I think the context will be enough to ...