Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

[Manuel]

Am 29/11/2006 um 10:54 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:

> As far as I know, it stands for "as far as I know".
>
> Regarding the typesetting practice, I often view handwriting as  
> more or less
> clumsy attempts to imitate what is done in well typeset printed  
> music, not the
> other way around.
>
>   /Mats

I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the  
first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first  
attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when  
typeset music is quite good, no printed score can equal the beauty  
of, say, Bach's handwriting. In the same way that instruments  
imitate, and should imitate, the cantabile of the human voice, a  
printed score should, I believe, approach as much as possible the  
expressive aesthetic of the handwritten music: you will agree with  
the concept of typeset signs - clefs, staves, etc. - being made as  
beautiful as possible.

Manuel




> Manuel wrote:
> > What does AFAIK stand for?
> >
> > Certainly, the dots make practical, besides systematical and  
> > didactical, sense in handwriting music; this in itself is a good  
> > reason to transfer their use to typeset music, which should  
> > reflect the way it is written by hand.
> >
> > Also, that music theory is at the same time pedagogy is an old and  
> > good concept.
> >
> > Manuel
> >
> >
> > Am 29/11/2006 um 09:52 schrieb Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan:
> >
> > > > Nick Bailey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > My understanding was that the f dots are the vestiges of the two  
> > > > lines in the
> > > > letter "F"... is that not the case? Hence the C clef and G clef  
> > > > wouldn't have
> > > > them
> > >
> > > AFAIK, the dots are usefull when the music is handwritten: it is  
> > > sometime
> > > difficult to read the exact position of the clef, or the writer  
> > > may have made an
> > > error and correct it that way.
> > >
> > > But this is IMHO not usefull in printed music.
> > >
> > > --Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
> > >
> > >
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