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Old 03-08-2010, 02:10 PM
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Default Re: New, first submission

Hi Yenney,

That is a gorgeous piece - thanks for sharing it with us!

The only thing I noticed that might be helpful in tweaking the notation is that it looked like some notes were entered as upper or lower voice. Since you already have the two hands on different staves, it might help keep the score a little cleaner (by eliminating extra rests) to have each staff as a single voice. Or is it standard in harp music to have more than a single voice per hand? If it's standard, then I've learned something new If it's not, but you want to have all the stems pointing in the same direction (and are using upper voice to do that), then you can still hide the rests by (1) selecting them and (2) clicking the "Hide rests" button in the detail palette.

If you want to put each staff in single voice, just (1) use Region/Select Region to select the entire song. Then (2) use Region/Convert region to selection of notes. You should see all the notes turn blue, and the Notes palette (if not already "on") should then show up. Now (3) just click the "Single voice" button over on the right (the button with two notes on it). That will then put all the notes in single voice for their respective staves, and gives a little "tighter" and cleaner look to the notation, without changing anything about the performance, which is beautiful (I used GPO chromatic harp 1 to play this, but have also watched and listened to your YouTube video).

You can also embed your YouTube video right in your post if you want. Just use the little "projector" button in the Message Editing Box when you create your post, and put the number/letter combination that comes after the "v=" in the link you get from YouTube. For your video, it would be gHlw7n727EE

I'm curious as to your method for entering the notes - the performance of the file is really convincing!

ttfn,
Sherry
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