On Feb 19, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
This is a big issue with hand written music turned in by my students,
most of whom seem to think that it's alright to put a reasonably sized
note on the middle line of the treble clef with an illegibly tiny
accidental next to it.
I tell my students who submit hand-written assigments to:
Make sure the notehead fills the space between the lines,
Stems must touch noteheads on the correct side, and generally be no
shorter than an octave (except for special circumstances that we go
into later),
Beams never slant more than a third, no matter what the melodic
interval is,
Flats are a sixth tall, and have pointy butts (no lower case b's!)
Sharps and naturals are a seventh tall, and should be tall and skinny,
but vertically straight and horizontally slightly skewed (like me!) No
tic-tac-toe board shapes.
For all accidentals, the open space MUST be centred on the same line or
space that the note is on,
and I show them how to stagger vertical alignment when there is less
than a 7th between notes in the same chord that need an accidental (top
accidental first closest to the note, then the bottom one shifted left,
then the middle (if there is one) shifted still farther left.)
This takes care of the most grievous flaws, and most importantly, gives
them something concrete to compare my criticism to.
Christopher
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