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Look through this whole piece. It's filled with suspensions, single, double and even triple:

https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usim ... 4_scan.pdf

Composers have loved he effect of double suspensions for at least the last 500 years and with good reason. They are a beautiful effect. So keep using them!

There is a notation for showing that an instrument repeats something freely. If it is an instrument written on a single staff, repeat marks would placed around the material to be repeated and a thick line is drawn from the right repeat mark along the middle line of the staff to show how long the rep...

I think the OP should immediately move to Dorico not Sibelius. Their online support in unparalleled. Where else can you communicate directly with the director and head programmer?

I rewrote your second example in normal musical notation eliminating the suspensions. I hope I got it right. The similar motion from the fifth to the sixth is OK since similar motion is only an issue approaching a fifth, not leaving one. And in four voices there is no issue either way. example 1.jpe...

My unanswered question is whether there is, or still is, a prohibition against similar interval other that similar thirds and sixths. A similar interval, in my old language, is an interval that is formed between two voices changing in the same direction but not forming exactly the same interval tha...

I did the same thing once, David. I pointedly asked Milton Babbitt about the role of inspiration in composing music right after he had delivered a very erudite lecture on 12-tone theory. He wasn't pleased.

ebiggs1 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:54 pm

Been a long time since you took theory class, John?

Didn't quite get that, but I teach theory and composition.

Absolutely. Rules are made to be broken. :wink: I've never liked the "Rules are made to be broken" approach. When a scientific law breaks down they revise it or try to find a better one. If the same thing happens in music, we tend to shrug and chalk it up to music being an art and not a science. I ...

motet wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:07 pm

No reason to use a tie for a grace note.

You probably mean instead of a slur. Actual tied grace notes are not uncommon.

Brahms, who is noted for his meticulous voice leading, put together a personal collection that he called "Octaves, FIfths etc." it was the only thing he didn't want burned after his death. It contains examples of parallel fifths and octaves from the 16th-19th centuries and includes just about every ...

I agree with N. It would be much better for a pianist to learn from and play from a solo piano score, particularly because of page turns.

And in case you haven't done this, play it through Finale to check for notes and rhythms.

I have noticed similar things when importing recognized scans from SmartScore. it might very well be a Finale problem.

This is a capability that Dorico had from version one and probably the biggest reason I would ever switch. I handle it in Finale by piecing individual slurs together as necessary. One can get a pretty good result. Some would take the file into a drawing program.

Some other possibilities. Context could be important, so I supplied a hypothetical continuation:

It's just a convention some publishers use, marginally helpful for the player, I suppose. I thought I'd try it. John Ruggero: I seem to recall a conversation long ago about this. Thoughts? It's been done by many publishers for a very long time as a courtesy to the player since it keeps all the rest...

It's only available during periods when it is unavailable. Catch 22.

N., as you said, that did the trick! Thanks so much.

Why is the dot so far from the quarter rest compared to the other notes and rests? And is there anything one can do about it globally?

I think you may have accidentally inserted the 32nd rest before the sixteenth rest manually. Try placing it after the sixteenth. It inserts either way.

jeff, I think you should try a Dorico 30-day free trial and report back to us.

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I thought not. No harm in checking though. It would be nice is all the text blocks in a file loaded into a single text editing window.

Grasping at straws here, but is there a way to copy the text of all the text blocks in a Finale file or a series of Finale files in one go? I need to place them in a Word document for spellchecking.