On 4/13/2014 8:35 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On Apr 13, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Robert Patterson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I guess when Beethoven does it, no one complains. > > Right. To be clear, these players are only talking about C clefs in > new music. And I actually think most of this is actually a proxy > complaint for "too many ill-considered clef changes." >
And if that's the case, then I agree with them. One of my pet peeves is when something is notated in an awkward manner simply because it's easy to do so. Having 3 clef changes in 4 measures simply to avoid ledger lines makes no sense to me and I would complain about it also. But using a clef change for a lengthy passage would not get a complaint from me. I complain the same way about the excessive use of elongation dots (dots more than 1, in my preferences) when the rhythm is much more clear and less likely of misinterpretation using tied notes. Any notation "cuteness" done more to exhibit the composer/arranger/notator's cleverness than in any real effort to make the musical meaning clear to the musician reading the part is something which I find to be a fairly modern problem as computer notation programs have made it possible for people with no idea about notational clarity to spew reams of printed music which could be so much more clearly notated. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
