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Yes, I just threw this project together quickly to illustrate the technique. I suppose that's the reason for the message, although Dorico still reports that (for violas) but on the top note on viola 1.

Thanks for the advice and help. Would this notation be best given that using artificial harmonics makes it less clear as to what/how it should be played in a double stop? Dorico calls this "too great a stretch" when the natural harmonic is added to the E.

Negative to all.

What's shown is all one has to go on, so given that what's the "best guess" here?

Hi again, all. A tendency I've seen in some composers who wrote in the 1910s and '20s is to use a "flageolets" indication for strings. I realize this means harmonics to us modern players and writers but I'm curious as to how these indications should be converted (or interpreted) by modern ...

Interesting reading material, thanks for sharing! I wonder if given that this was written over half a century ago the quoted wisdom is still considered a best (or even "good") practice in modern notation. Although I'm not cranking through new music like I used to, I don't run across the pa...

Is there a better recommendation that you both can agree is accurate and clear to players? I'm in full learning mode here...

Thanks a lot for the brief string harmonic lesson, Michel. This is an area of string technique and notation which I never really understood but it's much clearer to me now. How about this notation based upon your suggestion? The dotted line continues over the entire passage and ends with a downward ...

And would this be the more correct/modern way of notating what it appears the composer is calling for in this passage (if it is a slur between two harmonics)?

Thanks very much for your input, Michel! but this image makes it a bit hard to tell if those are really supposed to be harmonic circles. Are you sure that's what's intended? because honestly they look more like lower case "u" than anything. See the attached image for other written instance...