Albeniz Cordoba transcription for Classic Guitar

• Feb 17, 2011 - 22:04

First attempt....

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• Feb 20, 2011 - 22:27

Nice job. This is one of those pieces which pushes the limits of single-staff notation.

I notice one thing in particular which is not of your doing, but is an idiosyncrasy of MuseScore. Notice in measures 1, 3, 5, and many others, the tie extends to the notehead, thereby often obscuring the dot, depending on whether the note is on a line or in a space and whether the dot is above, even with, or below the notehead. In traditional music engraving, ties extend from the dot, not the notehead, in order to eliminate this problem.

All we can do now is to edit the ties, one at a time. This can be very tedious for those pieces which employ many of them.

Let me state once again that MuseScore is a wonderful resource. But do we suppose this could be changed in an upcoming version?

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• Feb 20, 2011 - 23:47

Thanks guys! This was my first shot at using MuseScore. I am not aware of any of the rules of traditional engraving (must have missed that class), but I did see what you were talking about Bill, and have fixed the score.

Do you have any other suggestions regarding string and fingering placement? There are places, for instance measures 107 and 108, where the ascending melody line, which could be more easily played on the third string, is played on the 4th string for a certain tone color. The left hand (numeric) fingerings combined with the string choice can make things seem cluttered at best and insane at worst.

Thanks again,

Tom

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