I can answer on behalf of Presser, including Elkan-Vogel, Merion, and
affiliates Coronet Press and Tritone-Tenuto.
Our house philosophy is to follow evolved standards which seem to be most
transparent and automatic for performing musicians to play from; ironically
for engravers, the best notation
That's just the point. YOUR experience, not mine. And to put it another way,
YOUR market, not mine. ("Every player I know...") I disagree with your
evaluation of the impropriety of using vertical chord symbols to mean
alternate bass. But I am unlikely ever to produce charts that you or the
music ma
Thanx there Philip. It's a good tip to know about that feature in
Canonic Ut's -- never noticed it before.
Obviously neither solution avoids the voiding of cautionary accidentals
so all past Finale work has this permanent labour involved (that is
perusing each part for these particular types o
As promised to most of you, we are trying to
organise the Second Open workshop of MUSICNETWORK Thematic Network
of the European Commission. A service to put together industrial and research
communities. http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org
I hope that you can contribute with your valuable ac
On Sun, 25 May 2003, Mark D. Lew wrote:
> I'm curious to know which terminology is used in Canada. Does it match the United
> States or Britain?
We use half, quarter, etc., but will stoop to crotchets if obliged to work with
visitors who subscribe to arcane nomenclatures.
Philip Aker
http://w
> -Original Message-
> From: James O'Briant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> But I stand firmly against notation "gimmicks" for purposes of style or
> engraving aesthetics or the like.
What composers do is one thing, but what engravers do is another. One can argue about
the pros and cons o
[Keith:]
>I once had a book of instumental exercises for trombone, with key sigs which
>had me stumped for a while- (I was only a teenager!) For instance, one
>actual printed key sig was EbAb Bnat! Turned out to be C minor. Also Bb, Eb,
>F#, (G minor), Bb, Ab, Db, Enat. (Fminor) and the first one
In a message dated 28/05/2003 05:47:37 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
in matters where an old practice and a new one are equally clear, I
often prefer the older or more traditional method.
I'm sorry, I don't find the two methods equally clear.
I find the new method of not naturaliz
