NOTATIO

Thanks, Knut. I will do some more experimentation with those specs tomorrow. It hasn't bothered me to start with the Finale Engraver Slur default, probably because that is all I've ever done. I tend to prefer starting from something preexisting and then modifying it. For example, I use scanning as m...

OCTO., It would be wonderful if Wess gave his input. As you say, many slurs have to be adjusted by hand. If only this software were more sophisticated and had the categories that you mentioned. At least it needs to cover all the simple cases like two notes of opposite stem direction. Knut, you are v...

OCTO. wrote: 1. Fermatas = I see it as the composer's enjoyment in writing them wide (not intentionally to mean "wide"). Just the pen feels good and scratch well on the paper. I should also point out that the editor of the Wiener Urtext did not consider the extended slur of the fermata to ...

David, thank you so much for sharing that. I have been involved in premieres with composers like yourself with whom it was a pleasure to work; but also with up-tight composers (often in their formative years) who have made everyone's life miserable with their constant carping. This is definitely not...

(Repost: I found errors in the settings in the attached files and in the body of this post immediately after posting last night, so please use the settings in this post and attached files:) After many years of adjusting Finale slurs, I decided recently to try to find settings that would give me good...

DatOrganistTho, I think that the best way to address your questions is with the following statement. I hope it covers everything. I am an idealist (in the philosophical sense) and think that great pieces of music like this Haydn sonata are ideal objects that exist outside of time and space, so that ...

A very interesting NY Times article concerning composer's MS and musical performance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/14/arts/ ... wanted=all

OCTO. said: 1. Fermatas = I see it as the composer's enjoyment in writing them wide (not intentionally to mean "wide"). Just the pen feels good and scratch well on the paper. There happen to be many fermatas in this sonata; in fact there are nine in my autograph example above. All of them ...

Peter, thank you for your clear presentation of some of the other sides of this issue, with which I am in complete agreement.

Not exactly the reaction I expected, but let's go with it, because it deals with some very fundamental issues crucial to this forum. DatOrganistTho, with that reasoning, no one would play any music that is notated, because there isn't a single element in that isn't left up to the player's judgement ...