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by Anders Hedelin
01 Jun 2022, 16:03
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Flat beam question
Replies: 17
Views: 4610

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...
by Anders Hedelin
01 Jun 2022, 13:06
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Flat beam question
Replies: 17
Views: 4610

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.
by Anders Hedelin
31 May 2022, 14:22
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Flat beam question
Replies: 17
Views: 4610

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, ...
by Anders Hedelin
28 May 2022, 06:25
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: how to show dotted rest
Replies: 52
Views: 18930

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...
by Anders Hedelin
26 May 2022, 18:45
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: how to show dotted rest
Replies: 52
Views: 18930

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...
by Anders Hedelin
11 Feb 2022, 07:02
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Dorico slurs and beams
Replies: 63
Views: 1448512

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.
by Anders Hedelin
07 Feb 2022, 17:27
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Proofreading suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 8713

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?
by Anders Hedelin
01 Feb 2022, 15:34
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Dvorak Cello Concerto publication
Replies: 17
Views: 12224

Re: Dvorak Cello Concerto publication

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.
Stemmed voices - sounds like tacet? Well, not sounds, perhaps.
by Anders Hedelin
25 Dec 2021, 17:01
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: The State of the Art, circa 1991
Replies: 7
Views: 3293

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.
by Anders Hedelin
24 Dec 2021, 19:40
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: The State of the Art, circa 1991
Replies: 7
Views: 3293

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...