On Wed, October 31, 2012 10:41 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Do the musicians in your circles genuinely feel that "Phrase-beaming is more > legible than a clutter of accents"? Because I've honestly never met a single > musician who believes this. Every instrumentalist I've ever talked to about > this issue absolutely *hates* phrase-beaming
No, I have never once had a complaint or a missed note because of phrase beaming. And they certainly do complain loudly about other stuff. Maybe they're just used to seeing it. Heck, a large youth orchestra didn't slip up at all a few years ago when they had different phrase beaming in each orchestral choir in irregular measures. I had two commissions go out in the past month with phrase beaming, and the players are working away without a peep about that aspect of them ... plenty of peeps about asking the percussionist and harpist to sing and whistle and make various mouth sounds while playing, I must admit. Guess I'm too old to worry who gets their knickers in a twist because it doesn't look like what's in their dog-eared exercise books. (Maybe there should be better exercise books.) D _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
