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by bophead
27 Feb 2022, 10:02
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: [Inkscape] Flat slurs - TUTORIALS
Replies: 11
Views: 16638

Re: [Inkscape] Flat slurs - TUTORIALS

Dear everyone, Following up the thread at http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=48 here is my first video how to make a flat slur in Inkscape. It is very easy. TUTORIAL 1 Pay attention that this slur is not necessarily meant to be flat, it is just an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYB1...
by bophead
26 Feb 2022, 16:17
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting notation alternative
Replies: 6
Views: 10612

Re: Interesting notation alternative

But look at this example from Dave Brubecks "Time Out & Time Further Out" (Songbook for 2 albums, 1962) – left-alignment with alignment to accidentials if present: take5.png Brubeck himself writes six flats obviously. To be honest I had just skimmed the text after stumbling upon it wi...
by bophead
26 Feb 2022, 07:36
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting notation alternative
Replies: 6
Views: 10612

Interesting notation alternative

Just came across this on the website of French composer but I think this would never become accepted:

https://www.dominiqueloup.com/en/amadeus-notation/
by bophead
24 Feb 2022, 23:10
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website
Replies: 8
Views: 6594

Re: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website

It seems to be an specialist book in German for printers about hand-engraving from the golden era of that craft. Found another mention of Rudolf Witten’s instruction manual for printers with examples. Seems the book is not about plate engraving but movable type. Interesting example with Hebrew lyri...
by bophead
24 Feb 2022, 22:25
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website
Replies: 8
Views: 6594

Re: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website

As someone who is also very much interested in German 20th century history, it shocked me that Zapf had involved his talent in such an evil piece of Nazi propaganda. Back to the original topic: Here is a video of Zapf doing a presentation of his career in San Francisco in 2001: https://youtu.be/wat...
by bophead
24 Feb 2022, 21:18
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website
Replies: 8
Views: 6594

Re: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website

so I have most of these he lists under "Books in English" anyway: In case you have some dough left ;) : there is a long literature list at the end of the “Essay on automates music engraving” on the Lilypond website. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/essay/long-literature-list Wa...
by bophead
24 Feb 2022, 21:00
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website
Replies: 8
Views: 6594

Re: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website

I sorta collect notation guides There are more interesting links under https://www.terentyevpublishing.com/about . For the Russian websites you can use Google Translate (directly if on Chrome, through Google Translate extensions on Safari, Firefox, Chromium etc.) which works quite well for Russian ...
by bophead
23 Feb 2022, 22:04
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website
Replies: 8
Views: 6594

Interesting video about notation handwritten by Hermann Zapf on Russian Publishing House’s website

Searching for information about the “Boosey & Hawkes Style Guide” I saw mentioned here several times I stumbled upon the site of a Russian publishing house. They have some interesting links there under the menu item “Type & Typography”. https://www.terentyevpublishing.com/ I found especially...