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- 11 Jan 2024, 19:57
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Enharmonic symbol
- Replies: 28
- Views: 457246
Re: Enharmonic symbol
IMO any supplementary explanation will just obscure the simple fact that the same note is spelled both as D flat and as C sharp. What's the problem?
- 13 Dec 2023, 16:16
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: What a difference a line makes!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 171843
Re: What a difference a line makes!
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. I agree, on both points. Personally I don't find t...
- 11 Dec 2023, 20:28
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: unison wih different value noteheads, question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 160282
- 01 Dec 2023, 12:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Tuplet values
- Replies: 8
- Views: 94494
Re: Tuplet values
Another question about your first example. Now and then I get older manuscripts to work with, where composers obviously use slurs instead of brackets for tuplets, in the old way. Sometimes they are broken, sometimes not. When not, the slurs are not always that obvious: are they just "tuplet slu...
- 01 Dec 2023, 09:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Tuplet values
- Replies: 8
- Views: 94494
Re: Tuplet values
Doesn't it look more like a badly placed 2? (Left bottom "corner".)
Badly placed or perhaps a little too small.
Badly placed or perhaps a little too small.
- 24 Nov 2023, 11:53
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: The Stravigor?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 51099
Re: The Stravigor?
Not to mention Schubert. Most likely he'd written 10 symphonies if he'd had that.
- 07 Nov 2023, 12:55
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: string quad-stop question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 71376
Re: string quad-stop question
I can't let go of the question of long or short chord breakings. As I understand it, OCTO, you prefer Szeryng's smooth and almost simultaneous chords, but I'd like your opinion about what's often heard in Bach performances. Take fx. this beginning of the first solo violin sonata by Bach: Bach multi-...
- 05 Nov 2023, 16:23
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: string quad-stop question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 71376
Re: string quad-stop question
I think the question how to notate the difference between a rather fast, unaccented beginning of a broken four-stop on a string instrument, and a more accentuated one, remains unanswered. John's comparison, interesting as it is, doesn't say much about string notation. While four-stops, notated as ch...
- 30 Oct 2023, 13:30
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument
- Replies: 4
- Views: 30939
Re: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument
I'll go with Michel here. For a score of this size, tempo indications at the top only seems good enough to me. In every part there'd be tempo indications anyhow. No one would risk missing anything. The space problem might possibly be resolved by further diminishing the size of the staves, and draggi...
- 27 Oct 2023, 16:22
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Stem Direction question
- Replies: 50
- Views: 821317
Re: Stem Direction question
!! I'm glad they didn't.David Ward wrote: ↑27 Oct 2023, 15:39 [About Berg's Wozzeck] ... there was a score in the music library at the boarding school I was at, although I suspect that if the staff had studied it they might, in those days at least, have blocked my access to it.