this issue of apologetic notation is one i come across often, more commonly in north america but also in europe. i can't speak for jazz charts/musicians, but if you are working with professional musicians, you MUST take it for granted they know what the hell a bartók pizz is, or a quarter tone.
no musician working professionally today and playing new music can justify ignorance of these (and a host of other) basic things. what happens when the composer notates everything is that the musician has to read a novel to discover the one thing that is unique or special to the composer/notation and given some don't read the legend anyways (!) you are making it even more likely your notation explanations won't get read. at least until after the rehearsals without the composer present. when you overannotate you can also come across as condescending to musicians who know what the hell a bartók pizz is. again, if they know it and see it in your legend, they can easily assume they don't need to read any further because you have written a score for newbies or high school bands, which you should NEVER do. if the musicians you are working with are inexperienced (for whatever reason) provide them with a glossary of terms as a separate sheet, but prepare a professional score, with only the ESSENTIAL information in it. a win-win situation: whoever needs the supplement can read it, whoever doesn't can make a paper plane out of it to throw at the composer during the dress rehearsal (i know someone this happened to...). side note: scans of fingerings from published texts should NEVER be included in your score, that is a copyright infringement. this is the kind of thing that can be sent as a separate sheet (along with your glossary, for example). -- neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + arts management + translation [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
