>And if you aren't familiar with academic BS, you might not be aware >that there are ALWAYS hard and fast and often arbitrary and >ridiculous "rules" for the submission of dissertations which will >get them rejected if the rules are not followed, and that ALWAYS >includes specifying margins, including additional margins on the >left for binding.
it would be helpful for their students to eventually get real-world performances (or is that not the goal here?) if their guidelines actually had some "real world" in them. the margin is still too large, unless they are using clamps to hold the scores together. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/G-clamps.JPG >Harmonics, by definition, are ALWAYS notes found in the natural >harmonic series. You can certainly play artificial (fingered) >harmonics in quarter tones or any other intervals, but never natural >(open string) harmonics. actually not true, you need to finger non-tempered intervals to produce harmonics beyond the m3 (15va+5th). a slightly flat m3 will give the 7th harmonic, so it needs to be notated differently than the 6th for absolute clarity. >Anything above the m3 is for practical purposes impossible, at least >on violin, because there simply isn't room for the fingers! They >are easier on the larger stringed instruments with longer strings, >of course, because that gives you more space to work in. exactly. easy as crap on the cb and very easy on the vc. of course care has to be taken, and some are impossible on the violin of course, but a set of rules stating nothing else exists is ridiculous. i refuse to accept the notion that notation should be limited to what broadway players are capable of. anyways, here we are talking about a set of guidelines for (supposedly) advanced composition studies. >Sorry you don't feel that way. sorry you do :-) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
