On Oct 5, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I do 19th century notation as well,
I'll bet you don't! Do you half-cancel a double sharp when a plain sharp appears in the same bar? Does an accidental applied in one octave apply to all other octaves? Do you write "G.P." over every empty measure? Do your percussion staves always have five lines, and use treble and bass clefs even for instruments of indefinite pitch? If you use key signatures, do you omit them from horns, trumpets, timpani? Do you never write 8va----- above a bass staff or 8va bassa------- below a treble one? Do you never write a score in concert pitch? I could go on.
Written musical notation is continuously and seamlessly evolving, and its current form can be characterized as "19th century" only as a deliberately inaccurate pejorative. You need to stop that.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
