Digital versions would be wonderful, although it does create some issues for a publisher who hopes to make enough money selling the edition to at least break even.
FWIW, I also play early brass, and I love it when I can find ensemble pieces in Finale or what have you, rather than just a scanned image. That allows me to customize the edition to suit the particular needs of our group (shift the tenor part to bass clef, adjust page breaks, change the key so it better fits on our instruments,...). I often manually transcribe printed or scanned versions into Finale just so I can fiddle with the formatting. -----Original Message----- From: Sean Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:51 AM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines Well, there you go. I can appreciate that. See, choice is good. That's if we are designing a program for our personal use. To design a standard for what we'd like to see from the published/outside, on-paper world gets more difficult. It may come about that tabs eventually get published in digital format. If we had our machines ready and could open the file to change it to our preference we'd be good to go. Maybe the lute societies and webpagers could tell us more about how they distribute music on the web and what feedback they get from their constituents. my 2.1 cents Sean On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:24 AM, William Brohinsky wrote: > I think, maybe, we can skip the prejudicial ad-hominem remarks. > > I try to play from all kinds of tablature, and frankly, I find the > in-the-line notation hardest. And, as my age increases (which can be > said of all of us on this list: if you've figured a way to get younger > as time progresses, please contact me 8^) it only gets more > pronounced. > > That said, when the lines are too close together, between-lines is > harder to read than on-lines. > > There are way too many variables for anyone to get too didactic, > really! > > ray > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM, G. Crona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you actually tried to play from it, I believe that you'd get my >> point. >> >> G. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:51 PM >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: G. Crona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:34 PM >> To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines >> >> Yeah! >> >>> But jokes aside, if one would actually take a look at, and play from >>> tablature on the lines, one could easily see what I'm trying to say. >>> The >>> arguement >that its easy(er) to read should hold ground quite nicely! >> >> Not at all. And I can't see any reason why it should. >> >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Rainer aus dem Spring >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > >
