Monica Hall
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:04:46 -0800
How do others prefer preparing their scores? I'm guessing there may
be preferences based on whether the intention is a score to perform from or if it serves a more scholarly function.I am confounded by the way some people use arrows with tablature or in transcriptions to indicate direction. Tyler's "Brief Tutor", for example, notates pieces in French tab and has arrows pointing towards the bottom the page to indicate a downstroke. Russell's De Murcia transcription does the same thing. Doesn't it make more sense for a downstroke arrow to go from the bass side towards the treble string?
I must say I agree with you. I use Django which doesn't support FRench style notation so I put in arrows in the way you suggest.
I suspect however that doing it the opposite way is the way it is done in standard classical guitar notation/flamenco notation of which I have very little experience.
Otherwise it makes no sense to me to do it like that.
To me tablature or notation already sets up one spacial concept, and this Tyler/Russell usage seems to create a second, antithetical one.
I entirely agree. The originals are not always very easy to read so doing transcriptions is helpful but it seems to me self defeating imposing a different concept on the notation.
For this reason I think it is a mistake, for example to invert Italian tablature.
If you don't tackle the problem at the outset you are going to have to relearn everything if you try to play from the originals.
Monica
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