To be honest, it all depends. If it is a passage which suddenly jumps to a very high note, ledger lines can be a real obstacle, in finding out whether it is an e4 or g4 or whatever.
But a change to 8va in the middle of a high passage regularly throws me. Then, I am not really confronted with this kind of thing all that often as a baroque and classical violinist. (Preparing for next year's Flying Dutchman...) In other words it really depends on the context. I would not want anyone to use 8va for anything including high a or b, but beyond that I think I would prefer it. Johannes On 30.09.2003 16:19 Uhr, Robert Patterson Finale wrote > I, too, have heard that many instrumentalists (specifically violinists) prefer > leger lines to 8va symbols. I can accept this up to 5-leger-line (and a half) > c4. Do players really prefer leger lines even higher? I'm currently working on > a passage for violin that hangs around e4 (6 leger lines in treble clef). > Isaav Asimov used to say the human mind can only distinguish up to five items > as a unit. Above that, we slow down and count sub-groups. This is certainly my > own experience. So going past 5 leger lines > has always seemed problematic to me (never mind the vertical spacing issues). > > Are there fiddle players here who would rather see 6 leger lines for e4? As a > horn player I'm perfectly comfortable down to written pedal Bb with leger > lines. Below that, I want bass clef (either new or old--just be sure to say > which it is). But this may just be a function of what we're used to. -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
