NOTATIO

Thank you, yes you are spot on, and I don't feel offended by your comments as it's always good to get wider perspectives on issues. I have been in situations that you raise, and they have brought up for me questions of interpretation - be they technical execution, musicality or emotional atmosphere....

Thank you for the comment, maybe I haven't been clear enough. I have been working on just such a system - to provide a notation that covers every instrument and every playing situation. To do this I categorised the untuned percussion instruments into four conceptual typologies of membranophones, met...

Thank you yes I did, but i will check them out again. With the gongs on p. 223, if you write a piece for say 3 gongs, you would then have to have 9 staff lines. And if you wanted to include other instruments how many staff lines would you need? And the playing on the rim on p.224 by striking the rim...

Thanks, yes I am aware of Finale's notation. But here's the problem as I see it. If we look past the "standard" way the instruments are played and start to think of the ways in which they CAN BE PLAYED the notation has flaws. Snare drums, toms and bass drums for example have up to 20 chara...

Thanks John, you are right, and well demonstrated with the turn symbol and attempted inversion. I think I have gone down that path of immediate difference, but in the light of your comment will review it. Also I have been alerted to the fact that some of my symbols were not in the SMuFL glyph tables...

Aha. Thank you for that. I will check through. I always feel challenged by technical matters, but clearly I need to research a little (or a lot) more. Most glyphs I found in Apple Symbols and simply assumed they could be used.

Thank you both OCTO & Fred for your assessments - very valid points. If I understand you both, you are saying that I should perhaps try to get my pieces out so that people can see and possibly be game enough to try them, before asking software developers. My thinking, which developed as I experi...

Thank you OCTO. I agree with your comments re ease of reading and standardisation. The simplified playing directions, usable with tuned percussion, readily and consistently identify: 1. which instrument is to be played in all multi-percussion set-ups; 2. what part of the instrument will elicit the s...

Thank you John, twice over. In the process of working out the notation I set myself the task of applying it to my pieces and to more complicated musical settings than is normal. What I discovered is that I could expand the range of sounds on the individual instruments, and introduce a new approach t...

Thank you for your comments. Current notation is predicated upon the premise that each particular action will replicate the same result, in this case, the same sound; and this can be notated with the one symbol – a note. For instruments of 12-tone tuning this is an effective method of imparting play...