At 10:41 PM -0400 10/31/12, Darcy James Argue wrote: >Hi Dennis, > >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 (and >this is including specialists in the thorniest >New Complexity stuff).
Am I wrong, or isn't this what phrase marks (which as a string player I HATE because slurs should be bowing instructions) are actually for? No accents are needed (assuming that you don't actually want notes to be accented, of course!). Both Beethoven and Schumann did pretty well fighting "the tyrany of the barline" using completely conventional notation for their time, and what they wanted is pretty darned clear. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
