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- 07 May 2024, 22:28
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Opposing Seconds with dots
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1667
Re: Opposing Seconds with dots
With two voices, I would never interpret that as a staccato (since it should always be pushed outside to the stem), but someone might. That’s a tough one. Might be best to push the dot just a hair to the right to give it that extra clarity without moving it too far from the notehead it goes with.
- 28 Apr 2024, 13:13
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Opposing Seconds with dots
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1667
Re: Opposing Seconds with dots
Completely agree, benwiggy.
- 17 Apr 2024, 02:01
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: An age old engraving problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5727
Re: An age old engraving problem
And here's a post I did on a separate topic that is related to your query:
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viewtopic.php?p=10221#p10221
- 16 Apr 2024, 19:52
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: An age old engraving problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5727
Re: An age old engraving problem
Agreed. This is an ugly issue with a number of solutions, but nice-looking erasure of the background feels so good to me. This isn’t available in any software I’m aware of at the moment, but it is possible with some custom functionality in LilyPond. I’ve used it myself.
- 11 Apr 2024, 04:04
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: MTF Fonts noteheads displaying as symbols (Finale 27)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3849
Re: MTF Fonts noteheads displaying as symbols (Finale 27)
Abraham Lee doesn't sell his fonts anymore, and only made SMuFL versions of Cadence and Scorlatti, I think. The first part is true, but I did end up making Arnold, Beethoven, Cadence, Haydn, and Scorlatti all SMuFL compliant and publicly available for a time. I had intended to do many others, but l...
- 03 Sep 2023, 13:58
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Trouble with ties
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18222
Re: Trouble with ties
Whenever I see long ties like this in piano music, I wonder if a simple Ped marking would make more sense because of how it gets played in the end (depending on tempo, etc.). Often this is true, but I realize the finger holds/crossing is probably done on purpose here. Your solution looks just fine, ...
- 31 Aug 2023, 16:11
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: "only" forte?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17037
Re: "only" forte?
As a choral conductor myself, I take it upon myself to understand the score well enough to know that there's a section coming up that needs to grow to fortissimo. Certainly the suggestion wouldn't hurt, but it's really going to be up to the conductor's ear to decide when they've reached forte and wh...
- 09 Aug 2023, 22:48
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fermata
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5684
Re: Fermata
I’m interested to hear others’ thoughts as well. I’ve seen this numerous times and I could never make sense why a fermata would be placed this way. I would place it like the upper staff does.
- 14 Jul 2023, 17:15
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Fonts for Lyrics
- Replies: 39
- Views: 109879
Re: Fonts for Lyrics
David's example page is interesting because it reveals another related problem, which makes all the difference of whether or not a lyric extension line is necessary on, for example, "rain" (m. 60). The entire page feels a bit busy, but not because of its density. It feels extra busy becaus...
- 01 Jun 2023, 17:21
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Hyphens for compound words
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12416
Re: Hyphens for compound words
A hyphenated word isn’t treated any different than hyphenated syllables. So, it would be storm - clouds on separate notes with the hyphen between.