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- 06 Aug 2019, 19:41
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Internal evidence and editorial problems: Beethoven
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13222
Re: Internal evidence and editorial problems: Beethoven
Thank you John for pointing out all these details of Beethoven's notation. It's really thought-stimulating. So, in the case of the missing staccato, I'm wondering: It's very convincing that the C has a structural significance in the main theme section (and others), but would that in any way be weake...
- 01 Aug 2019, 08:09
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Beethoven Stems 5
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2968
Re: Beethoven Stems 5
Maybe the last example could be interpreted the other way round: that the upstemmed notes at the end are the more important ones, letting the sonata end poetically hanging in the air. And closing at the starting point of the whole work as well as of this movement: the third. Just an idea. I can see ...
- 29 Jul 2019, 20:07
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: A modern looking score in 2018?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 92055
Re: A modern looking score in 2018?
After having reflected a bit, I think that the idea of 'modern-looking' scores is quite related to a specific time, the 'positivist era' of the 60's and 70's. As in the example by Ligeti/PWM in my previous post. (1982, late in that era.) In later scores I've found a much more traditional, 'pragmatic...
- 27 Jul 2019, 17:22
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: The longest slur - ever.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16626
Re: The longest slur - ever.
My guess is that the composer intended to draw a 'hypnotic slur'. The character given for the music: 'nostalgic, very smooth and hypnotic'. Maybe there are no real rules for 'hypnotic slurs'. (I haven't found any with Gould.)
- 25 Jul 2019, 15:17
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14335
Re: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
Thanks for letting me know, and for directing me to the manuscript. The examples given above with different-sized notes all seem to be more or less about saving space. Do you know of any intentional, expressive/structural use of sizes between the two traditional ones (regular and grace-note/cadenza ...
- 25 Jul 2019, 09:53
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: The longest slur - ever.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16626
Re: The longest slur - ever.
At a first glance it looks like the slur is meant mainly for the sixteenth sixtuplets (and triplet), but then it isn't quite consistent. During the first two quarters it wouldn't have had to be placed above the notes at all, and just at the end it should have gone below the notes if following the pa...
- 24 Jul 2019, 14:03
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14335
Re: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
I had a look at Beethoven, Op. 110, the first edition according to IMSLP. There was no difference in size between the 'main notes' and the perhaps rather ornamental 32nds at the beginning of the first movement. How does it look in the manuscript, if there is one?
- 24 Jul 2019, 13:45
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14335
Re: Notesizes in Strauss Don Quixote (Jos. Aibl Verlag / UE)
Interesting. I haven't been aware of this pragmatic engraving before. It seems that in L'heure espagnole the flutes have smaller notes and accidentals because of more accidentals. In the clarinets there aren't that many accidentals, so the notes are a bit bigger. Or am I mistaken?
- 19 Oct 2018, 17:13
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Hairpin left edge vs. accidentals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11828
Re: Hairpin left edge vs. accidentals
She also says that the hairpin should end on the right side of the ending note. Strangely enough, her examples show something else: most end on the left side of the noteheads! I think that the ending position of a hairpin can depend on context Gould says (p. 104): "Good practice is to start th...
- 17 Oct 2018, 21:02
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Finale update
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16164
Re: Finale update
All from the version (2014?) where you could open newer files in older Finales there were no big problems with that, until now, I'm told. If you open a v26 file in an older version you seem to risk your articulations being seriously messed up. I don't put any blame on MM for this, it's just that it ...