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Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 12:48
by benwiggy
At a rehearsal last night, we were presented with a score printed by a large, well-known UK publisher, in which every single dot was missing! Dots on i and j: Missing. Fullstops. Missing. Dots on Dotted notes: Missing. (It's in 3/4.)
As the conductor said: most of it is obvious, but we have no way of knowing if any part is staccato!
I can't imagine how it happened: some kind of weird prepress anomaly. All other text and symbols were there: staff lines, hairpins, all correct.
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 14:04
by Den
Hahaha
ex.fermata without dot
optical illusion for conductor
"I can't imagine how it happened: some kind of weird prepress anomaly. All other text and symbols were there: staff lines, hairpins, all correct."

hmmm
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 14:45
by Anders Hedelin
It's always troublesome when things go missing. Here's a fermata without the vault.

- Fermata....JPG (7.94 KiB) Viewed 14573 times
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 16:59
by benwiggy
You two should pool resources!
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 18:15
by Anders Hedelin
Thanks, benwiggy. I think I might have found a niche there.
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 21:43
by Den
benwiggy wrote: ↑26 Feb 2020, 16:59
You two should pool resources!
Anders Hedelin wrote: ↑26 Feb 2020, 18:15
Thanks, benwiggy. I think I might have found a niche there.

Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 26 Feb 2020, 21:49
by Den
But now seriously... Without funny!
What dots mean in Braille music....

Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 15:43
by OCTO
benwiggy wrote: ↑26 Feb 2020, 12:48
a score printed by a large, well-known UK publisher, in which every single dot was missing! Dots on i and j: Missing. Fullstops. Missing. Dots on Dotted notes: Missing.
I can't stop laughing!!
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 16:15
by John Ruggero
Dot's nice!
Re: Score with no dots!
Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 18:18
by Anders Hedelin
Agatha Christie might have made something splendid of this - "The Missing Dots Mystery".
Just imagine the setting in an old music publishing house. Eerie.