On issues of notation, I always take everything jef says as if it was gospel.
However, a parenthesized courtesy accidental is a prime example of a notation saying “this is not a typo” and a non-parenthesized one is similar. I sometimes put the eyeglasses glyph over a passage that is likely to make musicians look twice, in order to make them look twice and improve the chances that they will perform it correctly (this is jazz notation). I think there are notations that are more authoritarian and less authoritarian. jef, you must deal with degrees of aleatoric-ness all the time, no? Christopher > On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:17 AM, SN jef chippewa <shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> > wrote: > > > this issue of apologetic notation is one i come > across often, more commonly in north america but > also in europe. i can't speak for jazz > charts/musicians, but if you are working with > professional musicians, you MUST take it for > granted they know what the hell a bartók pizz is, > or a quarter tone. > > no musician working professionally today and > playing new music can justify ignorance of these > (and a host of other) basic things. > > what happens when the composer notates everything > is that the musician has to read a novel to > discover the one thing that is unique or special > to the composer/notation and given some don't > read the legend anyways (!) you are making it > even more likely your notation explanations won't > get read. at least until after the rehearsals > without the composer present. > > when you overannotate you can also come across as > condescending to musicians who know what the hell > a bartók pizz is. again, if they know it and see > it in your legend, they can easily assume they > don't need to read any further because you have > written a score for newbies or high school bands, > which you should NEVER do. > > if the musicians you are working with are > inexperienced (for whatever reason) provide them > with a glossary of terms as a separate sheet, but > prepare a professional score, with only the > ESSENTIAL information in it. a win-win > situation: whoever needs the supplement can read > it, whoever doesn't can make a paper plane out of > it to throw at the composer during the dress > rehearsal (i know someone this happened to...). > > side note: scans of fingerings from published > texts should NEVER be included in your score, > that is a copyright infringement. this is the > kind of thing that can be sent as a separate > sheet (along with your glossary, for example). > > -- > > neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation > http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html > > shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com > new music notation + arts management + translation > [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
