i think it *does* require explanation, it is certainly not self-evident. but you can get away with not explaining it in a legend because there is a surrounding context within which the musician can deduce its sense. but imagine the symbol in a non-metered and solistic situation, e.g., various durational values following one another in a chain but no barlines or time sigs -- you would have no idea what is meant unless you knew beforehand.
and the fact that you have to count backwards AND forwards makes it a bad choice for me: 4+2-1=5 or (4 x 1-1/2) - (4 x 1/4) i would definitely boycott this notation. in ex2 there is interest in having a single symbol for the duration because of the l.v. but a stemless quarter head with lv ties would do just as well. and that is indeed something i have seen many times. better than stemmed quarter with lv ties followed by a whole rest in square brackets, for example. in your ex1 why is the end of the 1st measure in the upper piano not a dotted 8th? in your ex2 i would rather see the 5/4 value notated as half tied to dotted half (in both cases), reflecting what is happening in the other piano each time (held note 2/4 then pedalling over 3/4) >For anyone who is interested in the notation, here are a couple examples. > >https://www.dropbox.com/s/e67walobznq1ygl/Crumb-DayOfComet.tiff?dl=0 >https://www.dropbox.com/s/0nz3afpyiyx1y4m/Crumb-ZeitgeistEx2.tiff?dl=0 > >He also uses it extensively in the "Musica Apocalypitca" movement of >Star Child. It really requires no explanation, which is one of the >attractive features of it. -- 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]
