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- 24 Jan 2016, 02:10
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A Test
- Replies: 23
- Views: 27094
Re: A Test
I don’t feel a V chord on beat 2 where you have written it. That bar is all I (‘one’) to me, even with beat 2 outlining the essential tritone. I think it’s unlikely that LvB would feel the line hitting a vertical 7th on beat 2 and a 4th on beat 3, both resolving up (the “wrong way”), even at the tin...
- 23 Jan 2016, 19:10
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: # and natural symbols
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25458
Re: # and natural symbols
Fascinating! This never occurred to me before, and the optical illusion issue is obvious on close inspection. I suppose it might be relatively simple for an application to align a single sharp in the Durand style, above. But what about chords, mixed accidentals, etc.? How can this be codified for mo...
- 23 Jan 2016, 17:26
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: A Test
- Replies: 23
- Views: 27094
Re: A Test
Excellent counterexamples! This forum is becoming a great supplement to my education. My eye prefers D as the clearest. I note that the standard stem directions allow me to peripherally observe the rhythm while my eye focuses on the noteheads melodically, just as well as stems all in the same direct...
- 18 Jan 2016, 22:19
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Engravers vs Composers: Stem Direction 2
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26110
Re: Engravers vs Composers: Stem Direction 2
To call your own stem directions “not correct” is to admit that their breaking the rules doesn’t carry any meaning. I’m on the fence about whether to agree with John’s conjectures about Beethoven or not. The question this prompts for me is: Do engravings which ignore Beethoven’s stem directions in f...
- 13 Jan 2016, 19:44
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Strange notation in Ravel
- Replies: 33
- Views: 40682
Re: Strange notation in Ravel
Thanks to erelievonen for that! Makes perfect sense to me. One disadvantage of making the lower note of a second the “back-note” might be that it leaves a tiny white gap between the noteheads, so they may look less connected in a chord. In the usual modern alignment, the noteheads of a second always...
- 07 Jan 2016, 20:04
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17454
Re: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?
Hi OCTO – If you’re seeing all the the rows of 16 identical symbols in the character set of Bravura Text , those are alternates accessed by the vertical shift characters. For example, see Implementation Notes for Time Signatures, U+E09E & U+E09F. The shifted glyphs don’t have their own codepoint...
- 22 Dec 2015, 19:22
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Crumb's unique rhythms
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26376
Re: Crumb's unique rhythms
Brilliant!! And why did I never think of this? It’s compact, perfectly clear, and the principle could be extensible to other durations.John wrote:He's adding on one side of the chord and subtracting on the other.
- 22 Dec 2015, 19:14
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Strange notation in Ravel
- Replies: 33
- Views: 40682
Re: Strange notation in Ravel
In the Sonatine1 example, I notice the LH chord with fermata has notes on the ‘wrong’ sides of the stem! I wonder if there was a reason for that. I don’t recall ever seeing that in a plate engraving before. (It isn’t even possible in Sibelius without resorting to symbols.) John, did you notice this ...
- 15 Dec 2015, 14:06
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Arnstein and the "whole measure rest"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21628
Re: Arnstein and the "whole measure rest"
I and friends have certainly been tripped up by a whole rest in 4/2 meter. It is even not unheard of to mistake a half rest at the beginning of a 4/4 bar, since it’s larger than the beat. I have actually seen 2 quarter rests written in such a case. Conversely, a whole rest IS appropriate in a meter ...
- 15 Dec 2015, 13:59
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: BW-balance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13760
Re: BW-balance
High contrast of thick & thin strokes actually does not aid readability. After over 25 years of music setting I have finally realized that very fine staff lines, stems, barlines, etc., are harder to see at normal reading sizes in exactly the same way as a Bodoni or Didot is less legible than Cen...