Alignment is not an issue. The noteheads continue to align exactly as they do now. You just have to make more room for accidentals on the left.
So you think Crumb invented it? On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:46 AM, SN jef chippewa < shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
