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Ugly slurs
Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 14:22
by RMK
Check out this excerpt from John Adams' Hallelujah Junction, most likely engraved with SCORE.
https://twitter.com/ElizaMcCarthy_1/sta ... 88770?s=20
Have you ever seen uglier slurs?
(Actually, I have: see the same composer's Gnarly Buttons).
Re: Ugly slurs
Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 19:11
by David Ward
Heavens! Even to me (and I'm less fussy about looks than many - most? - on this forum) they look - er - not nice.
Re: Ugly slurs
Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 21:40
by JoshNichols
That is atrocious. I wonder if that was "insisted" on by the composer... Part of me thinks that it was, because a principled engraver would never let that slide.... "but the house always wins."
Re: Ugly slurs
Posted: 25 Feb 2021, 17:03
by benwiggy
RMK wrote: ↑24 Feb 2021, 14:22
most likely engraved with SCORE.
If a good engraver can get decent results from any software, then the opposite is also true!