At 8:53 AM 05/28/03, James O'Briant wrote:
>All I can tell you is that I regularly and repeatedly receive
>compliments from my customers on the readability of the music I sell,
>and that I have never had one single complaint about my use of
>accidentals or the method in which I engrave key changes
Robert Patterson wrote:
> ...If you take nothing else away from a reading
> of Ted Ross's book, you should take away that
> communication of the composer's intent to a
> performer in the most efficient and clear way
> was his overriding concern.
I agree that clear communication of the compo
I believe I was the first in this thread to use "aesthetic" in regard to
engraving, and want to clarify that I did NOT use it in a negative, ironic
or derogatory way. I should let Jim O'Briant speak for himself, but my
guess is he also doesn't use "aesthetics" in a derisive way, as he is a
musi
> -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
[John Howell (on newer tendency to omit naturals in key signature change):]
>I could be wrong, but the change I think I've seen between late 19th
>century orchestral engraving and 20th century engraving is not a
>change in whether to cancel accidentals, but in where to put the
>cancelation. Cance
At 5:56 PM 05/27/03, John Howell wrote:
>I could be wrong, but the change I think I've seen between late 19th
>century orchestral engraving and 20th century engraving is not a
>change in whether to cancel accidentals, but in where to put the
>cancelation. Cancelling before the bar line gives a wa
At 8:41 AM 05/27/03, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
[answering me]
>>I would add one point, though. The rule I've often seen, and which I
>>prefer, is that when you're switching from sharps to flats or vice versa,
>>you do not cancel the outgoing signature, but if you're switching from
>>several sha
> From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was recently looking thru my copy of the Doors _Waiting for the
Sun_ printed anthology, and noticed a variant of this that I don't
think Finale can currently do w.o a workaround: when changing from F
to Bb at the end of a line, the cautionary key si
