Re: Guitar harmonics indicators

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Tim,

Thanks. I neglected to mention, as not being totally relevant, that the piece 
if for 10 string guitar exclusively, with the extra string notes being 
indicated in the bass. Also, with my colleague, of the New Complexity School, 
for this piece the notation cannot be changed, say to use harmonic note heads 
and so on. This is a fixed requirement. As to playability, since being composed 
in 2008, the players who have done it all seem to like the notation, but then 
they are naturally specialists in modernism and new complexity, not your 
average classical guitarists I guess.

Andrew


On 20/05/2016, 11:44 PM, "Tim McNamara" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Bear in mind, though, that fairly few guitarists are used to seeing guitar 
>written as if for piano.  Johnny Smith advocated that, because it allows the 
>guitar to be written as it sounds, but he was almost unique.  99% of the 
>relatively few guitarists who can sight read expect to see treble clef, 
>transposed up an octave.  Few could play the example given.
>
>One fairly common standard is using an open diamond head to indicate the 
>harmonic, but that is really only useful for octave harmonics.