At 9:43 AM -0400 7/2/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Will Denayer wrote:
Dear Christopher,
I am using Finale 2007c with Garritan Pers. Orch. 2 and the
playback engine is Kontakt 2.
I am talking about double bass solo KS. Artificial harmonics (using
TGT) play back correctly, natural harmonics (articulation tool -
no.21), do not play back, I hear the note which is written.
The way I understand notation of natural harmonics, you are
SUPPOSED to notate the sounding pitch (ledger lines and all), then
put an "o" over it to indicate that it should be produced as a
harmonic, so the playback WOULD be at exactly the notated pitch.
The problem with that method (and I freely admit that while I used to
understand the notation of harmonics well, it's been a long time!),
is that it leaves it entirely up to the player to figure out how and
where to finger the harmonic. We ran into that in a piece by
Sibelius not long ago, and we've run into it in Broadway show books
as well. Not exactly an aid to accurate sight reading!! It's the
composer's/arranger's responsibility to make sure a passage in
harmonics is playable, but it's also someone's responsibility to make
sure it's readable at sight.
John
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