NOTATIO

Wescott wrote: ↑09 Sep 2025, 17:15 I don't see why it can't be placed just like you place all the other articulation marks. What am I missing?

It's virtually always placed above to avoid confusion with an up bow symbol. When inverted, it looks almost identical so its meaning is no longer clear.

Measure 3 has a beam that ends in the middle of a space, which is not "allowed." A descending beam contained within the staff has to end in Straddle or Hang, it can't just be floating unattached to any staff line.

In his book Modern Rhythmic Notation Gardner Read did a survey of 200 compositions from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries and found a 52% chose my A (his B), 17% chose my B (his A), and 31% wrote it out with dots instead of tuplets (my E after David's suggestion, Read's F). read40.png None of the ...

Here's a gift link to a pretty cool article that ran yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/arts/music/notation-in-classical-music.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk8.t6XN.LOeeM82rhCwr&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawMTAwNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHijh7KKWEKIRGTxhTDiMohtQ6OChVquJWeFwXrK7kupV6dL6Mc2...

David Ward wrote: ↑20 Aug 2025, 19:06 What I might add, is that the hybrid look of D could be confusing: I would suggest, either use dots for both, or don't use dots for either the duplet or the quadruplet.

So option E here would be an example of using dots for both.

If I have a lot of quarter/crochet duplets I'm going to use dotted eighths/quavers for consistent readability. Bartok's 6th String Quartet has a ton of dotted eighths in 6/8. When he does have a quadruplet (and quintuplet), he uses eighths: bartok5468.png I suspect he would vote for D. Paul Hindemi...

the 2nd beat is easy I am in complete agreement with you here. If I go by what I was taught, duplets are the only tuplet that is based upon the higher value, rather than the lower one. I think this is fairly common with 7:8 tuplets too. So by what I've bee taught, example A is the most correct. Sch...

This question was recently polled on another site, and there was an overwhelming consensus there. I'm quite curious what the response will be here. Which, if any, of the following bars containing tuplets are notated in a rhythmically acceptable manner in 6/8? rhythm.png If context makes a difference...

OCTO wrote: ↑17 Aug 2025, 17:18 Tee for Two?

Golf scene. I think it starts here:
https://youtu.be/4sllsat2Xj0?si=laUdVAC4PDZ31r-D&t=53

I have a FB friend that is currently on a tour of various archives that contain Billy May manuscripts, and he's gotten into some really amazing stuff including Nelson Riddle's original pencil score for Frank Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin," original Disney pencil storyboards for &qu...