I was using the term "notehead font" incorrectly -- I really meant the
music font in general. For hand-engraved music I don't know how they
measured such things, if they used the term "font" or not. The G.
Schirmer editions I'm thinking of are some flute books, where all the
notation is just way too large for the spacing they used. Smaller
noteheads, stems, flags, beams, everything, if used with the same
spacing would have been much easier to read. "First Solos for the Flute
Player" is the one title that pops into my head, but I recall some
recorder editions and other books from G. Schirmer which are the same
way. And yet there are other G. Schirmer editions which are much more
elegantly engraved.
David H. Bailey
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:05 AM, dhbailey wrote:
There's just too many variables to take into account for a computer to
be allowed to be the final arbiter of what will result in the best
engraving, as far as performability goes. Note-head font size, for
instance. Leaving it full size makes tight spacing hard to read but
reducing it just a few percent can make an illegible spacing into a
much better spacing, without changing the spacing at all.
Really? Is this actually done in professional engravings? I think this
must be the first I have ever heard of reducing notehead font for a
passage. I know scores are routinely zoomed in or out as the numbers of
staves change, but that is entire pages, not just a passage of noteheads.
Christopher
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