At 3:01 PM -0500 7/27/08, Richard Smith wrote:
Sibelius does the same thing as Finale in this case. But, if I may give a player's perspective, I really prefer having the MM rest broken to place a DS or similar instruction. It doesn't look as good, but it's much more clear to me as to where it is to occur. I have played lots of music that had such instructions poorly placed and was confusing. I think instant recognition is more important than graphic beauty, especially in the high pressure world of one rehearsal (maybe?) before performing it.
Agreed. And that one-rehearsal paradigm happens a lot more often than some people would probably believe, especially those in the education game.
But then, this brings up one of my favorite peeves. Why, when copy and paste work so well, do we continue to use complicated repeat patterns and nested endings that only consume limited (at least in my case) brain power when it's most needed for making music? The less we are distracted from the basics of music making, the better the performance is likely to be. It's really time to leave the archaic notation shortcuts of the handwritten era behind.
Not until we can also leave page turns behind--and those are REAL distractions! Yeah, it's theoretically possible now with digital music stands, at GREAT expense and with the ever-resent danger of losing power! Which means that it simply hasn't happened yet
Now I've made someone mad. Sorry.
Not at all. I'm with you in theory, but as you yourself said above, practicality is more important than theory.
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