by Daniel Spreadbury | Jun 29, 2015 | Design, MAKING NOTES
After the last instalment’s detailed discussion of beam grouping and sloping, today’s development update is going to focus on some of the issues around laying out a page of music, in particular working in the horizontal dimension, including casting off and...
by Daniel Spreadbury | May 7, 2015 | Design
Very nearly two years since my last appearance on the SoundNotion podcast, hosts David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Sam Merciers invited me to return this past weekend to give an update on how things are progressing. In the hour-long conversation we covered a wide range...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Mar 6, 2015 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As a wise man once said, there are as many rules of music engraving as there are music engravers. This is a joke, of course, but perhaps only half of one: although there are certain aspects of how music notation should be presented that more or less everybody can...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Dec 18, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As the year draws to a close, thoughts naturally turn to the events of the past twelve months, and indeed to the promise of the year ahead. For us, the past year represents a lot of forward progress on our project, but the year ahead will bring more milestones on the...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Sep 30, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As summer gives way to autumn here in London, it’s time for another update on our progress. As the photo above shows, there is great satisfaction to be gained from lining things up just so. In this post, I’m going to discuss two of the areas in which we...
