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Hallo.      I've been looking at piano music by a composer I'd never come across before finding her on this site - Tui St. George Tucker, who appears to have written some very unusual music indeed.      In "Ave Verum", vol. 1, on p. 6, most of the music on that page is obscured, leaving on...

     Thanks for the comments. They seem to confirm my suspicion that it was due to a rather poor software default - although I'd think any self-respecting composer would find out how to correct it before presenting their scores to the world. I look at lots and lots of scores, especially piano music,...

     Maybe it's not important, but I'm curious: with many scores prepared on a computer by the composer (as against a publishing house) I have noticed a very strange phenomenon: most of the music is spaced on each system normally, but the last system contains just one bar with a single chord or mayb...

It means when there is a long succession of notes on a common beam, some very high, some very low: instead of using 8vas, ledger lines and key changes: spread these notes on two staves. I'll look for an example on imslp if necessary.      I think I get what you mean. In fact, I probably do a simila...

and just don't trust computers not to crash and destroy years of work along the way. I regurlaly make copies of music I've typeset - and other interesting documents - on another computer. I also make sure I can open this copy correctly with this other computer, because copying has its small risk of...

Instead of ledger lines and 8va signs, are you aware of this notation for piano music? http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.pdf See paragraph 2.5.7      I'm not quite sure I see what this is about, based on a quick look; I will read it in more detail a bit later - if I can und...

Here is how to make your own music paper with LaTeX: [...]      Thanks for your suggestions. But I'm not sure what this is about. Is LaTeX a computer programming language - or is what you posted instructions on using certain software? You can adjust the spacing beetwen lines or staves. I don't thin...

     Hallo. I'm not sure if it's too far off-topic here, but I thought I might seek opinions here about something that has long bothered me.      Are many people here composers? Do they compose on a computer, or do some use music manuscript paper and write their music by hand in the old-fashioned wa...

     It was a long time ago I read it, so I might have got details wrong. Maybe Beethoven's metronome ran too slow rather than too fast; and, in any case, I didn't remember whether the markings were generally considered too slow or too fast anyway - just that their reliability was suspect (according...

Melodia wrote:That fragment is not, in fact from the 8th Symphony.

Check out the liner notes
http://www.eclassical.com/composers/sib ... 24bit.html

     Oh - what is it from, then? The notes there don't say much, but simply say that it was hailed as being from the 8th Symphony.

     Get scores for all the pieces, and read as you listen, following the progress of the music.      You might like to just go through the quartets in order, starting with the early ones, and progressing through. If aspects of the more complex works elude you, don't worry about it, but just return ...

     Is there any truth in the idea I read many years ago (in a now-forgotten source) that, for many years, Beethoven's metronome was faulty and ran too fast, and he didn't know it, so that most of his metronome markings can not be relied on?

     Gosh! I am astonished at the caning Schumann and Brahms have taken here recently, with very poor arguments being used to back the assertions that they are bad composers.      I gave up years ago trying to determine what composers are great, and what ones are merely good, and what ones mediocre....

     Sibelius's 8th Symphony.      Apparently his wife saw him feeding it to the fire, so I guess there's no chance of a copy ever turning up in some dusty, forgotten corner of an old library. This must be one of the most tragic losses to music I can think of; I'd be willing to bet the world would t...

     How about his "North Country Sketches"? Was that ever published? If so, is it public domain now?

Regards, Michael.