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Seconds are fine as-is: one solution could be starting the bar with a Gb instead of an F#, but I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary.

In the firsts I’d probably go with B C# Eb: I don’t particularly like writing or reading diminished seconds, and to me the diminished third that’s necessary to switch ...

Bolder fonts need to be wider, in order to counteract the sausage effect, allowing more space for fatter strokes. You still need contrast between thin strokes and thicker ones. See how the serif on the p dynamic is still thin, compared to your letter p. Same for the counter, which has thick and ...

Sorry to beat what may be a dead horse.

I read in Gould: "It is best to notate a cue in the player's current clef, especially if the cue is short . Should this require many ledger lines transpose the cue one or more octaves and indicate the octave transposition. The resulting notation is less ...

Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to develop a personal House style regarding fonts, just to learn what could work and what not.
I'm currently on Dorico, and for the non-musical text I use Minion Pro. I'm really satisfied with that, and I like to fine tune all the parameters As I learn new things about ...

Knowing when something is a syncopation or an actual time signature change is definitely something I struggle with because as a player if I were to see 8/8 in my part for an occasional bar with the tresillo rhythm and then it immediately goes back to 2/2 I would think the composer was being too ...

Thanks for your thoughts on this, LSL2026. I think that another good reason to have flexibility in stem direction has to do with slurring.

Slurring a up stem note to a down stem note can be awkward for seconds and thirds. This lessons for greater intervals. Therefore, I would go with A, B, C and ...

I’m definitely more of a “default to stem down” person: I rarely will upstem a center line note except in very specific circumstances. For me, having the center line note be variable makes sightreading ever so slightly more difficult because all of the other notes have a defined default stem ...

I'd prefer the pickup measure instead of a full 6/8 bar for the first 3 notes.

I would try to fit more bars per system and maybe more systems per page: the first system looks really s p r e a d o u t to me, and even with the constant eighth notes, 4 bars per system and 4 systems per page has too ...

These were generated from Musescore using the defaults for line widths, etc.

One is Leland, and the other is Maestro - I’m sure you can tell which is which.

The text fonts are different too. Thoughts?

Some of the spacing got moved so I’m not worried about some of the details, just more about ...

The current convention is to number every bar sequentially as they appear on the page (so in Magnus’s example it would be 1-2-3-4-5-6).


Yes, I would use that convention. Igor Engraver and MuseScore Studio use it per default too. What about Dorico and Lilypond?


Can't comment on Lilypond ...