i would not consider this "resource" to be complete in any manner. and i would be ashamed to work in a place teaching composition where this is considered to be a useful resource... "to standardize [the] composition department preferences for notation."
>http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/style-guide/index.shtml > >This is a style guide posted on line by the >Composition Department of the Indiana University >Jacobs School of Music, and it's very solid and >well written. -- there are a lot of silly things and incomplete entries in that page. >Articulations should be placed on the note head >side, and with the exception of the staccato >mark should be placed outside the staff. and tenuto >Use double barlines to indicate sudden changes of tempo euh... isn't that what the tempo marking is for? to indicate sudden changes of tempo... or did i sleep through that class as well? >Cross-bar beaming is not uncommon in solo music, >but adds unnecessary difficulties to large >ensemble writing. author never heard of bartók i guess... >Generally, include a cue if an instrument is resting for more than 10 bars. this is ridiculous (although probably assumes unchanging time sigs / tempo). there are so many things that can function as cues: meter changes, tempo changes, fermati > Tempos: large enough to be easily read by a >conductor from 3 feet away from score. >(Generally, 18-24 point works well, depending on >the page reduction level) pretty damn vague. 18-24 pt "fixed" would be ridiculous. a fixed font size would be better. i use 14 pt and it works well in SC and PTs. 18-24 pt will look like ass in the PTs, even if proportional (i.e. not "fixed") >If submitting a bound hard copy of a document, >1.5² inner margins must be used to allow for >binding lime green jesus baked in chocolate!!!... ah! that might explain the ridiculous page format proposal. >...artifical harmonics, and all chromatic >pitches are available (starting two octaves >above lowest string). well, i wasn't aware the 5th as an artificial harmonic didn't exist... or maybe it is not permitted here. john, they don't mention harmonics beyond the m3 (15va+5th, 6th harmonic) at all. understandably: they would have to use microtonally inflected intervals then. oh, what's that? no mention of quarter tones either? ... i can't go on reading... oh just one more... >The recently coined term ³tuplets² refers to >irregular subdivisions of metrical units; >triplets and sextuplets are the most familiar. mmmmmmmmmmmm, no, actually i won't even touch this one. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
