Michael L. Meyer wrote:
On 10/26/05 2:16 PM, "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(I have a short piece with different fonts here:
http://www.philomela.net/files/fonts2.pdf
If you want to have a look.)
Dennis
Thanks for this, Dennis! I'm going to print it out later (I'm not near a
printer at the moment) so I can look at all of these. This'll be a great
resource.
In all honesty, I'm finding I perhaps don't quite have the engraver's eye or
something -- the more I look at the various fonts, the less I see the
differences. Or the less difference the differences make. Hmm.
[\opinion mode on]
When I look at all the various publishers who have been in business a
long long time, with all the various engravers' work, the more I find it
doesn't matter as long as the music is legible, not hard on the eyes and
is clearly laid out so time doesn't have to be wasted by musicians
trying to decipher what's meant.
The vast differences in appearance between Breitkopf&Hartel,
Boosey&Hawkes, Schott, European-American, G. Schirmer, E.C. Schirmer,
Carl Fischer, Southern Music, plus countless smaller houses, make me
realize that clarity is the only issue -- if a font looks good to you
and you lay the music out properly, that's what counts.
House rules govern much of the appearance issues, and they are as
important as (if not more so than) font issues.
[\opinion mode off]
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David H. Bailey
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