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- 01 Jun 2022, 16:03
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Flat beam question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4612
Re: Flat beam question
By no means! BTW I've found this, and the other forum truly educational. One tiny example: I was perfectly happy with the 8va and 8vb symbols until you pointed out that they were a creation by notation programs and had no substantiation in good old editions. So acceptance changed into rejection. And...
- 01 Jun 2022, 13:06
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Flat beam question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4612
Re: Flat beam question
One point could be that not just experimenting with different approaches, but trying to get used to them, or even to like them could be beneficial in one way or other.
- 31 May 2022, 14:22
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Flat beam question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4612
Re: Flat beam question
FWIW when experimenting with different beam appearances, flat, a little sloping, or more sloping, I've noticed that the eye quickly adapts to what is at hand. If you use flat beams (as in the example shown above), the eye, well my eye, takes it more or less for granted. If you use another approach, ...
- 28 May 2022, 06:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18949
Re: how to show dotted rest
Anyone have an explanation of why? FWIW this is an attempt at an explanation: It strikes me that notes and rests belong in different structural levels, at least partly so. Notes generally are part of the rhythmic details on the structural surface (1st staff below). Rests have, however, a double fun...
- 26 May 2022, 18:45
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18949
Re: how to show dotted rest
Interestingly enough notes and rests don't seem to demand the same level of rhythmic clarity. In both examples below the notes on the first staff are unproblematic, but the rests on the second ones are not. Notes vs. rests 1.JPG Notes vs. rests 2.JPG The rule of showing the middle of a 4/4 measure i...
- 11 Feb 2022, 07:02
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Dorico slurs and beams
- Replies: 63
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Re: Dorico slurs and beams
And on top of the optical and psychological reasons not to like 'dark mode' there's the aesthetic aspect. I (too?) find it overdesigned, to use David's word, and in poor taste. Just because you can do it on a computer, you don't have to.
- 07 Feb 2022, 17:27
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Proofreading suggestions
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8718
Re: Proofreading suggestions
What if Poulenc's Sex Tour is a completely different work from his Sextour? Posthumous? Known to just a few, like Hansen?
- 01 Feb 2022, 15:34
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Dvorak Cello Concerto publication
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12285
Re: Dvorak Cello Concerto publication
Stemmed voices - sounds like tacet? Well, not sounds, perhaps.John Ruggero wrote: ↑31 Jan 2022, 14:37 Then there is "voice" as applied by music software programs to mean anything stemmed together. That one really gets my goat.
- 25 Dec 2021, 17:01
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: The State of the Art, circa 1991
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3294
Re: The State of the Art, circa 1991
I also recall my first impression of Finale when I had a glimpse of what a colleague of mine was working with. I thought "this is just SO primitive". Much later I understood he must have been in Scroll View.
- 24 Dec 2021, 19:40
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: The State of the Art, circa 1991
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3294
Re: The State of the Art, circa 1991
The first time I worked with Finale was in the middle of the 90's, on a Mac Classic (?), the small cube with computer and screen all in one. I recall when making a change to the music, even the smallest one like dotting a note, the screen had to redraw itself - and it took about 10 seconds each time...