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Messages - Peter Edwards
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General Discussion / Re: Bug in Audit Accidentals?
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General Discussion / Re: Del segno question
You can write any Perfomance Flow Directions as text.
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General Discussion / Re: Incorrect timing with dotted notes
NWC then counts the bar length using the shorter of the notes in the chord and indeed is clever enough to put the stem of the next note in the right direction to match. Unfortunately it then fails to see that the other part is now the shorter one. The only way round this (using only one stave) is to split the second note into two tied notes so that the two parts are matched. With Hank's problem this would result in a dotted quarter and quarter chord; an eighth (tied); an eighth and eighth chord.
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General Discussion / Re: Incorrect timing with dotted notes
Rich, it is not a stinking program.
NWC does not support multiple parts on one stave (personally I think it could try harder) but it does provide a mechanism called Staff Layering which achieves pretty much the same results, so I suggest you examine the proffered solution in more detail.
Nevertheless there are unresolved drawbacks, in particular different stem/flag lengths and accidental incompatibilties in the layered staves which do need to be addressed, but in general it is usually possible to work round these with enough thought.
In other words, the program can usually create what you want, and with sufficient pushing we might even get it to do it without too much cerebral effort too!
So instead of flaming, try to be constructive. Legitimate shortcomings can be resolved.
Peter
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General Discussion / Re: Breves (double whole note duration)
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General Discussion / Re: New spell check mechanism when previewing your post
The singular crotchet and semiquaver are permissible however, even if rarely found in isolation.
Peter
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General Discussion / Re: Breves (double whole note duration)
There are 8 crotchets (i.e. quarter notes) in a breve. As the name suggests a breve is twice as long as a semibreve note. Of course in the right circumstances a semibreve rest can be any length. ;-)
Peter
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General Discussion / Re: Centering whole rests or notes?
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General Discussion / Re: How to make it fit?
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General Discussion / Re: the symbol for repeating measures
The message you would like is obviously not the one the messenger is delivering - nevertheless it is a message delivered from an authoritative source and indicates accepted usage to a sizable proportion of musicians.
On the other hand I have never come across your sytem of symbol usage (which in itself doesn't mean it is incorrect) but it would be helpful if you could quote some authority or source for your assertions.
And I'm sorry for my simplistic suggestions. I was just trying to ascertain whether the two usages could or did have some attributes in common, but I suppose you'd rather prove the other guy wrong than have a meaningful and constructive dialogue.
And actually it wasn't that simplistic. Multiple bar rests have just such a mechanism (admittedly inside the bar itself), and if it doesn't apply to multiple bar repeats too then the figure "2" is pretty redundant really.
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General Discussion / Re: the symbol for repeating measures
And in any case it would appear from your example that the indication of two repeated bars is not the symbol (which I assume is acting exactly as I described - a repeat of an irregular figure) but the figure '2' that you mention as placed just above the symbol.
Further, I would assume that a figure '4' with exactly the same symbol underneath it would indicate four repeated bars. Or am I being too simplistic?
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General Discussion / Re: the symbol for repeating measures
Single Slash - Repeat group of quavers.
Double Slash - Repeat group of semiquavers.
Triple Slash - Repeat group of demisemiquavers.
These all appear inside the bar after the group to be repeated and add up to the length of the bar.
Slash with dots (like % sign) - repeat whole bar. Each bar to be repeated is shown: | % | % | % |
So far OK. However a double slash with dots represents the repetition of an irregular phrase within a bar and not a repetition of multiple bars.
The repetition of a few bars may be indicated by the word bis with a square bracket over the staff showing the bars to be repeated, but personally I'd find that somewhat confusing.
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General Discussion / Re: Octave change indicator
Having said that they seem to use mainly 8 on its own in their own published pieces. However one instance in a Poulenc piece uses 8e double for the double octave up (French presumably) and another in a Debussy piece 8a bassa.
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General Discussion / Re: Selecting all Staff for change
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Measure numbers
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General Discussion / Re: Barbershop Quartet Songs
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General Discussion / Re: Alto Notation Help
All vowel sounds are made up of two simultaneous frequencies (formed from the resonant cavities in the pharynx and mouth)which are fixed for each vowel. This means that Sopranos cannot physically sing some vowels where the frequency of the sung note is higher than the lower of the two vowel frequencies.
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General Discussion / Re: Shave and a Haircut...
I'd never heard of the title but have known the snippet from babyhood, normally played as a sort of boom! boom! after a joke, and always with a triplet and flattened A.
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General Discussion / Re: Shave and a Haircut...
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General Discussion / Re: cadenzas
In fact it might be easier to do it this way by putting a temporary time signature the same length as the cadenza (instead of padding with rests).