On Jul 5, 2007, at 3:44 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 3:19 PM -0400 7/5/07, dhbailey wrote:
And for the folks writing traditional band/orchestra works using
traditional harmonic structures, they don't care one bit about
cross-staff notation.
And I would go out on a limb and speculate that this covers 99% of
arrangers and >90% of composers, including my late wife, while
fully admitting that music notation needs have grown enormously
during the 20th century, especially in the music of composers like
Dennis B-K.
Oh, come on! Anyone who writes a harp part, or even a piano part,
needs cross-staff notation. I'm not always on the cutting edge, and
even I need it!
Maybe you should say "99% of arranging situations and 90% of
composing situations" don't need cross-staff notation, and maybe I
would agree with you, but it's for those few situations that I really
need it that I use Finale, and not Encore (shudder) or anything else.
Christopher
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