I need it because I'm creating examples for a book. The notes look better shifted over a bit. Also, in a single staff part, you can place many measures on the staff if they're all whole notes (like a horn part for a Mozart symphony or overture), and if the whole notes are centered, it looks better on the page. I recreate a lot of those parts, so I'd like to be as accurate as I can. I would never put a whole note in the center of a measure if it's part of a score.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:06 AM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:47 AM +0200 10/18/12, Giovanni Andreani wrote: > >This interests me to, but I hope there's a quicker solution! > > > >Giovanni > > > Giovanni: I know that every once in a while > someone warns us that it isn't polite, when > someone asks how to do something, to ask WHY they > want to do it, but I'm really curious. Why do > you want to center whole notes? > > This was pretty standard in a lot of music, > including keyboard music, between the 16th and > 18th centuries, and for a modern player makes it > VERY difficult to read, again especially in > keyboard music, when the notes are not lined up > according to the beat on which they fall. In > effect you have to mentally move the notes from > where they are to where they should be sounded. > Placing a whole note visually on the first beat > of a measure, even in an extracted part, seems to > make more sense, and is therefore standard > notational practice and is reflected in both > Finale and Sibelius defaults. > > But I'm sure you DO have a good reason, and I'm just curious about it. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > School of Performing Arts & Cinema > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[email protected]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." > (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
