>On issues of notation, I always take everything jef says as if it was gospel.
are you sure that is a good idea? ;-) for new music i never use parentheses for accis. if there is a need, i put the full-size acci; i don't work with key sigs so very very rarely ever encounter a case where it could be useful. my fonts include them (accis + parentheses) but only because i know this is standard in classical and jazz notation. sure, there is no system that is failproof but i aim towards it... >However, a parenthesized courtesy accidental is >a prime example of a notation saying ³this is >not a typo² and a non-parenthesized one is >similar. I sometimes put the eyeglasses glyph >over a passage that is likely to make musicians >look twice, in order to make them look twice and >improve the chances that they will perform it >correctly (this is jazz notation). I think there >are notations that are more authoritarian and >less authoritarian. jef, you must deal with >degrees of aleatoric-ness all the time, no? > >Christopher > > >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:17 AM, SN jef chippewa >><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 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] > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >[email protected] -- 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]
