When I was using my first computerized notation years ago (called SMUT (=System for MUsical Transcription) the word for "tuplets" was "groupettes" (not, I'm sure, to be confused with "grupetti").
ajr > At 1:23 PM -0500 6/20/08, Paul Hayden wrote: >>I quit using the ottava bassa sign (8vb) _under_ notes several years >>ago when I read (in Read's book and probably on this list) that the >>normal octave sign (8va) should be used. I noticed that FinMac08b >>uses 8vb by default when you use the Smart Shapes octave symbol >>(8va) below notes. (I reset the 8vb symbol so that 8va shows in the >>Smart Shape Options window.) >> >>1. Do you think 8vb under notes looks amateurish? > > Very much so, because it appears to be some programmer's idea and is > not standard notation (as you seem to have discovered). So is the > term "tuplets," of course, but at least that isn't something that > goes on the page. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
