Date: Sun, 30 May 2010
Chris Bell ch...@directionsinmusic.com wrote:
As a pianist/keyboardist I would feel confused by both of them.
1 I don't like the broken 16ths
I agree. Anything that makes the rhythm more difficult to grasp is undesirable.
(I hate the old style vocal scores that divide
As a pianist/keyboardist I would feel confused by both of them.
1 I don't like the broken 16ths
2 I really don't like being told which hand to use, if you really
need to put any insication in I would go for fingering . . . but then
again . .
/ Cb
On May 29, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Ray Horton
This morning I played Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for postlude. I
do not play this more than once a year so I read it from the score. I was
very glad that the editors at Edition Peters chose to divide the beams to
reflect the division of the hands. The notes go past much too quickly to
Having never seen any other example of your 2nd notation, No. 1 looks
like most of the keyboard literature I have.
Looks normal to me and easy to understand, especially with only one
voice part. Sometimes, with 4 or 5 voices,
it gets problematic and a r.h. or l.h. may be added , and then
This bad keyboardist votes for #1. #2 is difficult to decipher without
repeated looks.
RBH
On May 28, 2010, at 7:47 AM, dc wrote:
I didn't get many (or any) replies to my first message on this
subject, so I thought I'd try again with an example to make my
question clear.
This is a
[mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of
dc
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 7:48 AM
To: finale-shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] indication of hands in keyboard music
I didn't get many (or any) replies to my first message on this subject, so
I thought I'd try again with an example to make my question clear
dc wrote:
I didn't get many (or any) replies to my first message on this subject,
so I thought I'd try again with an example to make my question clear.
Who is the expected audience? If expect the typical purchaser / player
to be a sophisticated interpreter, the upper example might be
I prefer the 2nd example because the flagged 16ths in the 1st complicate
the rhythm reading (for me)
ASIDE: The periods on the abbreviations aren't necessary IMO
-Cecil
- Original Message -
From: dc den...@free.fr
Which of these two notations do you prefer?
