drone notes
Hi,
I write organ music, in the style of Sarah Davachi, with a lot of drone notes/chords, held for a very long part of the score while all else move above those drones.
Is there a way to notate this, with playback, other than having long chains of tied notes accross the whole score? I feel it kind of hinders the reading and makes the score longer than it should be...
Thank you!
C
Comments
I poked around the Internet about this Sara Davachi, to see if any scores were viewable. Nope. So I found and listened to some of "En Bas Tu Vois", and hear the drone sound you describe.
In my opinion (others will CERTAINLY have other opinions), the whole point of notation is to establish a common convention for other musicians to reproduce a composition. Davachi may create her works with not one shred of notation. How do others reproduce, say, "En Bas Tu Vois"? If it's sequenced, they somehow get the sequencer's data file. If Davachi created her stuff using multi-track recording, for somebody to recreate any of her music, it's going to have to be by transcription.
If you want to create AND NOTATE in a similar style as Davachi, to the extent I understand the modern conventions of notation, you'll have to go with multi-measure tied notes. UNLESS you want to use Musescore to establish your OWN notation derivative. The quickest example of uncommon notation within modern conventions is the attached John Cage piece.
Musescore may be flexible enough to bend to what you want to notate.
In reply to I poked around the Internet… by Are Jayem
And, yes, playback... There's a gotcha. Your own notation derivative may not be understood by the Musescore audio rendering engine.