Going back to the mid 80s I've been a copyist, music librarian, and after a while the staff orchestrator/arranger, for "MUSIC AT KINGSBOROUGH", a successful year-round program of events at Kingsborough Community College in beautiful Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. That enterprise was recently terminated by a new administration. In any case I've used that experience to continually develop as a preparer of music notation, and perhaps I'm ready to take on a new persona.
Here's a question: which notation looks the most inviting, saying "play me"?
A: (it's just a png so it's not scalable, but you can view the graphic at full size in a new window)
or B: (same here)
If your answer is B, even though you might not even read music, what did you notice?
When I showed this to my wife just now, she first noticed that the notation in B is "bigger". To a certain extent this is an optical illusion because the dimensions of the graphic are the same, but it's the size of the objects in the notation that make the necessary impact, even in this small web graphic.
On to the next post. . .
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