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Whatever else you do I think you need to get those wayward dots in the treble to vertically align with the lefthand dots. Check Gould page 64 for tie options.

Concur with everyone; I'd rather read the first one any day.

Much appreciated!

Hello fellow noteheads. Just letting those of you who may be interested know that the first installment of my Orchestration In Depth series is now available on the Apple Books bookstore, this volume being focused on Timpani. It is optimized for the Apple Books reader on the iPad and the desktop vers...

Looking good!

John, The slant in bar 72 of your version is the least objectionable imv. My main issue, however, is the lack of stems on some of those 16th notes. In fact, although I don't like the more drastic slants of the original, I still prefer it overall since there is a least a little bit of a stem on the b...

Thanks, John. I understand doing it for historical purposes, but too me it looks ungainly and distracting and I can't get past not having any stems or the beam slants. To me it's over-notated. I think the musical context would tell the pianist that this is a compound line of bass + harmonic prolonga...

Thanks, John. Did you decide to do it this way to recreate the historical facsimile? I've never seen centered beams this drastic. Especially the 16hs with no stem to speak of.

Thanks, John. Is there an example of your engraved version of doing this you could post without any trouble?

Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 01:15 We did briefly discuss this in this thread a few years ago. I'm not sure there's been any development with any of the major software though. I would certainly be curious to see some results if one of them wanted to offer it as an option.

Thanks! Will check it out!