On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I generally use Jazz for jazz type arrangements, and Maestro for everything else. I think if Bill Duncan can come up with some excellent jazz type articulations that work for Maestro, then I might possibly leave the Jazzfont.....
I know Darcy Argue, for one, has switched to exclusively Maestro for all his jazz work, and he must have come up with some viable symbols that suit the Maestro environment (Bill's chord suffixes, to name one tool.)
Darcy, care to weigh in?
Christopher
Just for the record, I have said before that I prefer the Maestro/Duncan combination to the jazz font (and any other hand written style font I've seen), even with the scoops, bends and fall-offs from the jazz font when they are necessary. Please, no flames. This is just one person's preference - based on considerable experience, but still, just an opinion. If Bill is able to come up with a set of jazz articulations (not so many, really) that look as if they belong to Maestro, I'll be happy enough.
I do like fonts, and design, and elements that ad beauty and interest to the graphic representation of music, but in the end, it's clarity and ease of communication of the musical idea that trumps everything else for me, and I find Maestro less distracting than the Jazz font. If Eric is counting votes in this informal poll, David Berger falls into the camp that doesn't like the Jazz font. He thinks it looks like the work of a bad copyist.
Chuck
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