New option in Finale: Seven-band musical staff

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churlaev churlaev Posted May 07, 2018 14:21

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You are the most important musical program in the world. And it depends only on you: humanity will always write flat and sharps, or the seven-band music band will pass, without flats and sharps. All notes are equal! You need to create a "seven-band musical staff" option in Finale. Musicians will use, appreciate its convenience and usefulness, and all humanity will switch to a seven-band musical staff. Under this project, you can ask for money from the state, from the president, from politicians, since this is a very important project for all of humanity. Only your program, your site, your team will cope with this task. You will understand the state people, musicians, composers. You will be supported with money. Who, if not you? Today you have a unique chance to benefit all of humanity and get state support. Thank you, your Finale program is great.

This is a very important task and for it you can get funding from the government. Lots and lots of money!

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churlaev churlaev Posted May 07, 2018 14:28

I am an amateur composer myself. Often I use your program. Great program! But determining the distances between notes, shifting notes to several tones, creates big problems due to sharp and flat. The whole picture of the score changes. A new option "seven-band music band" is very necessary for all mankind. It will simplify the understanding of music and create a new look at the score.

PETER THOMSEN Edited May 07, 2018 15:50

I am not sure I understand, what you mean, but according to this web site there are more than 500 alternative music notation systems:

http://musicnotation.org/

MIKE HALLORAN Posted May 07, 2018 18:48

I have enough issues with the 1, 4 & 5 line staves commonly used in Western Notation. Good luck with that.

MIKE ROSEN Posted May 07, 2018 21:32

And while we're at it, let's reinvent the wheel. That round thing is so old-time.

MIKE HALLORAN Posted May 07, 2018 22:10

Is that 7 spaces (8 lines) or 6 spaces w. 7 lines? What happens after you cross the octave? A grand staff does 3 octaves and a 2nd with one ledger line for middle C. Include a few lines on each side and take into account the octave doubling of contrabass and piccolo instruments, there's 7 octaves.

I love this from the link that Peter posted:

"One of the few disadvantage to chromatic staves is that they typically require more vertical space on the page, ..."

No, that is a monstrously huge disadvantage and one that exposes the author as fairly clueless. There are many disadvantages for practical musicians performing in the real world.

One of conceits is that there are 12 notes in a chromatic scale. Only on a keyboard or fretted instrument tuned to equal temperment, Buckaroos—not so in nature. Those pesky sharps and flats, along with key signatures, help singers and non-tempered instruments play ... oh, what am I looking for ... yea ... in tune (whether we acknowledge it or not). A Bb is an A# only to a piano student—accompany a choir and you'll quickly find out it's not.

Notation as we know it evolved into its current forms. Is it perfect? Heavens no! Notation is never the actual music but only a road map. The music is in the performance or recording.

MIKE HALLORAN Edited May 07, 2018 22:15

By the way, lest anyone forget that, in Finale

A staff can have as many as 100 staff lines, or you can create a staff with no lines. You can also set the thickness of staff lines.

https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Finale2012Win/Content/Finale/Staff_lines.htm

My work here is done.

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