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- 26 Apr 2023, 03:11
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Engraving Stenhammars Interlude from Cantata The Song (Sången) - Final
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14540
Re: Engraving Stenhammars Interlude from Cantata The Song (Sången) - Final
Sorry to be a nit-picker, but the poco sometimes touches or almost the hairpin. I think that there is an (unwritten?) rule of music engraving that most elements should not appear to touch each other or be too close if there is no apparent reason for that. I'm with John on this. From a distance or a...
- 26 Apr 2023, 02:43
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: one Dorico "Defect"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15125
Re: one Dorico "Defect"
Out of curiosity I've just checked an MS score of my own from about 25 years ago in which Clarinet 2 doubles Alto Sax. Even in my manuscript I seem to have kept the Sax in the Clar 2 position. As far as I know, this causes no confusion to anybody; but it's probably not best standardized practice. I...
- 19 Apr 2023, 02:14
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Notation question from Fauré Élégie
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13466
Re: Notation question from Fauré Élégie
This page is also an excellent example of the importance of proper vertical alignment!
- 30 Mar 2023, 16:18
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Scordatura conventions
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6031
Re: Scordatura conventions
All of the composers I've worked with that came up in the pre-computer era have always written transposed scores. This is at least partially due to the fact that there was a 50% premium (under the NYC Local 802 contract anyway) to have hand copyists do the transposition, so it was much more expensi...
- 21 Mar 2023, 19:39
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22597
Re: how to show dotted rest
Of course! That’s one of the things I enjoy about this delightful little community.
- 21 Mar 2023, 18:36
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22597
Re: how to show dotted rest
So perhaps we should take some of the standard "rules" with a grain of salt. I take it you refer to the 'forest of rests' in Schenker's example? Forbidding dotted rests seems rather stiffly old-fashioned to me, so I agree with you there, John. That Schenker "forest of rests" mak...
- 21 Mar 2023, 03:11
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22597
Re: how to show dotted rest
I am guessing that you would accept what the composer requested from Anders IF there were another rest that followed, but not otherwise. Is that correct? I must admit that what the composer requested does not bother me as much as it would in 6/8 or 3/4 meter, for some reason. Maybe because of the l...
- 20 Mar 2023, 17:06
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: how to show dotted rest
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22597
Re: how to show dotted rest
My understanding of rests, which goes beyond 6/8, is that it is preferred to combine the beginning of a beat grouping, but not the end. This is to preserve the quick identification of the location of beat groupings within a bar. The same applies to augmentation dots. The obvious problem case is illu...
- 11 Mar 2023, 05:44
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: mercato and staccato
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12201
Re: mercato and staccato
It is common in jazz styles for a marcato articulation to be interpreted as both accented and short. That is not the traditional interpretation. It’s similar to how words take on slightly different meanings in a dialect of a language. Another example is how eighth notes are interpreted as swung (pla...
- 01 Mar 2023, 04:42
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Am I too picky? (and I'm not that experienced, but there are limits!)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8595