Re: Four piano snippets

[Phil Holmes]

If you've moved the right hand to the lower stave, the upper stave should have spacer rests, rather than visible rests.  Visible rests imply that something (the right hand...) is resting.

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From: Curt

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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:27 AM

Subject: Re: Four piano snippets

I just realized one problem with having cross-stave lines everywhere is that it makes crescendos and decrescendos and dynamic markings problematic.  What a tough nut this is.  

Going off of several of your suggestions and trying to understand David Kastrup's point about "cross-voice" (David, I'm not sure I followed), here's a revision of the first eight bars.  It's complicated by the fact that sometimes I actually do alter the tremolo pattern when there is a piano note at the same time.  How does this look?

On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Curt,

I would definitely use #2 and #3 alternatingly, depending on the context.
What I like especially about #3 are the alternating stem directions, which immediately tell me (as a pianist, not as a typographer) your idea. Maybe you could incorporate this in #2 also, even if it might use somewhat more vertical space? The patterns with all-down stems in #1, #2 and #4 _seem_ to suggest that the left hand part is considerably lower than the right hand, and are therefore somewhat irritating for me.

Best
Urs

PS: And yes, please leave out (most of) the fingerings. You may print the "1 2" at the beginning of the right hand, and you may suggest the "3" for the melody. But the rest is really superfluous (and therefore disturbing). You can't (and don't have to) tell which fingering a pianist might chose for the left hand.

Am 29.01.2013 03:43, schrieb Curt:

Hi, I am very torn about how to notate a piano figure of a simple piano prelude I wrote.  Below are four screenshot snippets of the figure in question (the entire prelude is made up of such figures).  Can someone help recommend the best approach or suggest an improvement?  I can forward source for any of them if anyone needs it.

Thanks, 

Curt

#1 - what I started with, but it just takes up so much space (four bars in)

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#2 - treble clef (sample of those four bars in a different file)

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#3 - bass clef

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#4 - tremolos, with four additional bars

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