{"id":358,"date":"2019-11-04T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/?p=358"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:12:16","slug":"proofreading-the-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/2019\/11\/04\/proofreading-the-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading the Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull boxtxt has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebce7b\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proofreading The Parts \u2014<br>A story with the little giraffe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing a decent piece of music is the one thing. Let&#8217;s call it the exciting part of a composer&#8217;s work. Admittingly, reflecting\u2014for hours and hours\u2014on what kind of sound should come next isn&#8217;t always so exciting, though. However, once a piece of music is written it cannot be considered finished\u2014at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually, the primary outcome of a composer&#8217;s work is a score. Of course it would be quite impracticable for the musicians to play from a full score, at least when we&#8217;re speaking about orchestra pieces or such music written for large ensembles. For that reason, the seperate parts are extracted from the score and need to be put into a pleasant layout in order that the musicians can read their parts most easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finishing one part might take up to two hours, depending strongly on the length of a piece and the complexity of the graphics of the notation. When each part is done and looks nice, I always print the entire parts and continue working with the paper sheets. I observed that proofreading the parts only on a screen would lead me to overlooking too many mistakes, so I do this step of procedure in a rather old-fashioned way with a red pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s have a look at what the little giraffe can see on the picture. There&#8217;s a&nbsp;<em>decrescendo-al-niente-line<\/em>&nbsp;that&#8217;s colliding with the barline. This isn&#8217;t really looking so terribly beautiful and would perhaps bedevil the legibility of the part, so it needs to be patched. Furthermore, I marked a tempo text. As you can see, the&nbsp;<em>A tempo<\/em>&nbsp;is too close to the&nbsp;<em>molto rall.<\/em>&nbsp;and a musician could read&nbsp;<em>A tempo rall.<\/em>&nbsp;instead of playing the first bar&nbsp;<em>A tempo<\/em>&nbsp;and starting the&nbsp;<em>molto rall.<\/em>&nbsp;in the second one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, proofreading is somewhat important and one should carry out this work very carefully as it needs plenty of time and concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, there is one golden rule: The most annoying mistakes won&#8217;t reveal themselves, unless the final score is printed in high quality. (-;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a decent piece of music is the one thing. Once a piece of music is written it cannot be considered finished\u2014at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[158,1],"tags":[7,171],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-petite-girafe","category-misc","tag-7","tag-lhistoire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrenhart.eu\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}