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- 23 Sep 2018, 09:35
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: New to engraving...am I on the right track?
- Replies: 24
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Re: New to engraving...am I on the right track?
I'll go along with John there. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the master of rendering an expressive, meaningful text in singing, said that a sounding consonant before a vowel should be intonated at the pitch of the vowel, even if it precedes the new harmony (!). The (sounding) consonant becomes a sort of...
- 22 Sep 2018, 12:21
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: A modern looking score in 2018?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 91030
Re: A modern looking score in 2018?
I apologize for joining the thread so late, but it's a very interesting one. I would just like to show one example of what the Polish PWM did at the end of the 'modernist era' in 1982, one page from Ligeti's Grave : Metamorphoses for Violoncello and String Orchestra. Ligeti Grave.jpg This is by no m...
- 22 Sep 2018, 11:10
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Composers vs Engravers: Stems and Slurs part 10
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10146
Re: Composers vs Engravers: Stems and Slurs part 10
John, I fail to see why the stem directions in your examples are that important. As Schonbergian pointed out, Beethoven may have made a point of telling beforehand what is accompaniment and what is not. But Chopin? The stem directions are what they normally would be with only the accompaniment prese...
- 19 Sep 2018, 19:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Composers vs Engravers: Stems and Slurs part 10
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10146
Re: Composers vs Engravers: Stems and Slurs part 10
Just a thought: Especially the right-hand slurs of the MS (copy?) are very suggestive in that they seem to begin, not on the first eighth, but on the the first rest, or even before that - and in that they do not end conveniently at the expected 'phrase joints'. To me it suggests that Chopin intended...
- 17 Aug 2017, 10:01
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
- Replies: 151
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Re: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
Thanks Knut!
I look forward to reading this thread more carefully.
A.
I look forward to reading this thread more carefully.
A.
- 16 Aug 2017, 16:44
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
- Replies: 151
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