At 8:53 AM 05/28/03, James O'Briant wrote: >All I can tell you is that I regularly and repeatedly receive >compliments from my customers on the readability of the music I sell, >and that I have never had one single complaint about my use of >accidentals or the method in which I engrave key changes.
I think we all agree that the publisher should follow the wishes of the composer. What seems to be overlooked by some on this thread is that a significant wish of many composers is that the publisher "clean up" the manuscript to make it more readable. I'm not a publishing house, so my experience is limited here, but it is my impression that most composers don't want to spend much time thinking about notational details (and the composers who find their way to this particular list are not representative in that respect). That's certainly the case with the handful of composers I work with. They hire me precisely because they want someone else to do the notation for them. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
