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Yes - I only use it for legacy files that I haven't transferred to Dorico. But I'm still interested in how/whether it develops. And I have a soft spot for Garritan/ARIA.

The software is Dorico; the font is probably Kepler Semicondensed Caption. I've been using that for years, so it's something of a house style; though I am moving to Nepomuk, in order to 'eat my own dog food'.

wasn't there a question of some score with the word "hum-ble" crossing a page turn, and the choir suddenly switching to "bouche fermé" at the bottom of that page? That's why things like mmm are usually in italics. (Singers will also, as a joke in rehearsal, sing the words of an ...

Ideally, I would have put a slur over the "For" as well, but I'd still value the line there.

I did some work for a publisher recently who insisted that there was always a tiny bit of a line on any melisma, unless it was really impossible.

It is occasionally asked whether lyric extension lines serve any useful purpose -- and sometimes one sees scores that don't use them. I recently had to sing the following**, where the words "Christ" and "Christ-mas" were both used in melismas; so you had to decide what vowel you ...

Just to keep up to date, Finale has released the .4 update to version 27. It offers an unusually lengthy list of fixes and minor improvements; but this has been marred by some installation problems, and on Windows, the loss of access to third-party PDF generators, like Cute PDF. Scoring Notes has a ...

You could be right; the quality of both original the print and the scan make it hard to determine. But when I zoom in, it could be a 2 after all.

Ah yes, there are other instances of the same pattern where it's clearly a 2. Stand down.

Perhaps the 3 was a misreading of a badly drawn 8 in the manuscript....?

We're in 9/8. This bar has 8 demisemiquavers (32nds?) in the time of 12; but the tuplet is marked "3". Surely it should be 2, or 4, or 8...?
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I've heard it said that Igor Stravinsky invented this wheeled rastrum, so he could write staff lines on any paper.The outbreak of WW1 meant he didn't patent it.