Last post by Flurmy -
I rise a white flag: I never saw those squares. And I'm very, very puzzled by the concept of piano harmonics. At most, I heard of a way of playing piano by keeping some keys pressed without making them play and then play some lower keys whose armonics make the pressed keys resonate. A sort of selective sustain.
Last post by hmmueller -
Re the meaning, I would suspect(!) that the notation says: Touch the strings at the half point to elicit the second (thus the small 2) natural harmonics, i.e. one octave above the strings' pitches. Exactly the notes shown are played, and thus the range of the piano is never exceeded - but the sound is higher. Depending on the tempo of that piece, touching the right strings at the right places at the right time might need a maniacially fast left hand ... hm. I'm not so sure about all this.
For the whole concept of notating harmonics for the piano, see Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars", p.339. However, she uses small circles instead of squares and requires much more extensive explanations in the score - the sounding notes in parentheses, as well as a text explanation. Maybe this is found somewhere else in your score.
For how I'd write that in NWC, see the attached .nwctxt file. It requires an installed Wingdings font (which should be standard in any Windows version).
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Please see the attached few measures of piano music. I assumed (yeah I know !) that the squares were harmonics ie perhaps two octaves higher than written. But then when you get a square with an 8va if this means 3 octaves, surely that's above the range of the piano?
An explanation would be really appreciated or even better, nwctxt coding.
The only minor issue is that the path to the files generated in NWC Bottles is very long: /home/<username>/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/nwc.exe/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/NoteWorthy Composer/,
Yuk!
Thank you for sharing. I'm just installing Debian13...
Last post by Bart -
Some updates on NWC under Linux
As suggested by Francis, I have also tried to install NWC in Linux via Wine (in fact I use Bottles to be completely correct) with the FluidSynth sound driver.
At first I had some strange interruptions during playback, but after trying to increase the priority of FluidSynth, these interruptions disappeared.
Second I couldn't "print" my scores, because no printer driver could be found under Bottles. But this is now also solved by installing CUPS (Common Unix Printing system) in Linux Mint Chris Titus Tech: Installing Printers in Linux and then the printer driver can be found also in Bottles. And after installing "printer-driver-cups-pdf" also generating PDF files is possible.
I wasn't able to do "Automatic upgrade", but I downloaded the upgrade file from NWC, placed it in a location where the "NWC-bottle" could reach the exe-file and ran the upgrade flawlessly there.
I also copied user tools from the original location to the NWC-bottles location and configured them in NWC. So I can now also run the usertools that are most valuable for me.
The only minor issue is that the path to the files generated in NWC Bottles is very long: /home/<username>/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/nwc.exe/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/NoteWorthy Composer/, but that's maybe because I didn't use the best configuration when installing Bottles and NWC.
I think I will do my NWC work in the future with Bottles, and not any more in a virtual machine.
Last post by Mike Shawaluk -
There is also BarLabel.ms, which was intended specifically for rehearsal marks (I would have called it RehearsalMark.ms but at the time, I didn't realize that is what they are called). It can be easily scaled up or down in size, and will automatically determine the measure number. You can also enter alternate text, such as REFRAIN.
Last post by Flurmy -
BOXMARK2 has been superseded long ago by the fonts in the PardyPack, courtesy of the good Lawrie. Those fonts are backward compatible with BOXMARK and have glyphs to draw boxes and more. Not very easy but feasible.
