OK , here is my 2¢ Spacing is bad: there is too much room around your invisible barlines (e.g. after the first three notes and many other places) Slurs are much too close to staccato dots, even touching them at some points Grace notes are too far from main notes, also (IMO) too small Very ugly tie at beginning of second system and several other places Syncopated half rests in 3rd system are wrong (even if they are that way in the original) Personal dislike: I hate those accents in Maestro, they are too wide Distance between treble and bass staves is too great This was obviously formatted on an 8.5X11 inch page; most (American) publishers would prefer 9X12 or 10X13 Third system on page 3: very poor alignment of accidentals
I could go on, but I've probably been way too negative already :) None of the publishers I work for would accept this, sorry. Ronald M. Krentzman R&M Music Preparation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keef Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] Please have a look Hi, gang. Please critique this pdf, a piano score (albeit a strange one). All serious responses are welcomed and encouraged -- general impressions are welcome as well. It is my best candidate for "modern" piano score, even if the music is nearly 100 years old. Please note this is a total knockoff, about four hours worth of my work (only two mugs of coffee), intended as a break from the score I'm working on so my eyes won't go completely buggy. The biggest slowdown was Finale's weird habit of simplifying syncopations (any method of completely turning this off?) I don't consider it perfect --- the ties need help, please advise as to how you would go about resetting these -- however I do consider it about 85%-95% correct. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze22zdy/alcotts.pdf or if you have trouble accessing it from there, try the link at: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze22zdy/index.html 1. Is it in the realm of publishable? Does it say "professional" or "wannabe" (be serious please)? Is this remotely impressive? What's your initial reaction when the score pops up and you actually see what piece it is? 2. What would you do differently, and how would you go about changing it from this form (please give numerical numbers when talking about resizing if you can -- i.e. this looks like it might want to shift a XXX EVPUs, or this might want to be resized to XXX%)? Since most of this piece is unmetered, and consequently there are no measure numbers, please let me know which line you mean if you get specific, i.e, p.2/3 or what a close marking is (and there's quite a few absolutely weird ones that only occur once or twice). Oh yes ... the weird note spellings are as written -- respelling isn't an issue. That's been scrubbed to *death* considering the nature of this score. All voicings, cross staffs, beaming, directions, marking placings, etc. are as the composer intended, with the exception of two accent marks. 3. What do you think this would show were I to include it in a portfolio? What value would seeing it have to you were you considering employing me? Is it "too out"? Is it "just out enough"? Does it demonstrate that I like a good challenge? Thanks in advance. Keef. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
