Re: [oll-user] [Challenges] Engraving challenge

[Janek W. <lem...@gm...>]

2014/1/10 Marc Sabatella <ma...@ou...>

> eOn 1/10/2014 8:34 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
>
> > I still would like to keep it (less) complex piano music. What about
> > the introduction of Chopin's f minor ballad op. 52 (m.1-7)
> > http://imslp.org/images/7/79/TN-FChopin_Ballade_No.4%2C_Op.52_BH1.jpg
> > ? Or is this still too complex? Urs
>
> I think still too complex as a beginning.  There are a number of
> notations there that one could easily go years without ever encountering
> unless one specialized in late romantic piano music and that would
> realistically have most musicians who don't specialize in that sort of
> music scratching their heads to even understand. Again, it does seem
> like an interesting challenge, but only after establishing the process
> using a simpler score.
>
> On the other hand, I don't see any reason not to keep the original open,
> especially given people have already begun working on it.  I just think
> a quick-and-dirty one that doesn't immediately bog people people on
> esoterica but invites them into the process should be added and people
> be encouraged to work out the process on that.  I'm talking about
> something that could be knocked out pretty quickly - something like a
> page out of Anna Magdalena or maybe just a *little* more complex.  I
> know this would not be a "challenge" in the sense of presenting any
> particular difficulties, but still, I think it would be value for just
> getting to the point where we are all on the same page, so to speak.
> And it provides a useful baseline to see how much manual adjustment and
> how difficult it is in the simple cases before worrying about more
> complex notations.


I completely agree!

Janek
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