i would never use this notation and would strongly discourage anyone who asked me from using it :-)
crumb "invented" a lot of things. so did a lot of other composers. some ideas are good. some ain't. since we write out the full note values in other measures, there is no reason to do anything different in a 5/4 bar (half tied to dotted half, or inverse). one of the things i do early on in any ensemble/orch score i get is to standardize all 5/4 and 7/4 measures -- notes AND rests -- so that every musician has the same subdivisions showing (the ones that the conductor will use) in their part. of course there is the discrepancy with 5/4, 9/4 and 11/4 etc. that they can't be represented with single note (with/out dots) values like the other 90% of time sigs, but this in fact helps them stand out in a positive way. standing out in a negative way for me would be the solution you propose. musicians have to learn a new non-standard notation on the metric level, where there are virtually no exceptions that may have to be learned on a score-to-score (or composer-to-composer) basis (in contrast to noteheads and articulations). plus graphically your twin-dotted notehead no longer sits in the proper rhythmic position and is unaligned with other non-full-measure vales on the downbeat. >One of the notation innovations that George Crumb uses is a >left-augmentation-dot to create a single note value that fills a 5/4 bar. >That is, a whole note with an augmentation dot on both the left and the >right. I suppose the logic is that the one on the right adds a half and the >one on the left takes a way a quarter (mirroring a second dot on the right >that would add a quarter). > >This notation is very attractive to me. Though non-standard it is simple to >comprehend and quite obvious in the limited context in which Crumb deploys >it. (Solely to fill 5/4 bars.) > >Making this notation in Finale is straightforward, using an invisible >tuplet on a double-dotted note, then adjusting the dot positions. My >question is does anyone know if Crumb invented this notation? And also does >anyone else use it? -- 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
