[smufl-discuss] Re: Should straight flags be promoted to recommended characters?

[notenlektorat]

To clarify: what would be the arguments in favour apart from the fact that some prominent composers had their scores published with them? These flags always struck me as a style choice, even though I have read at times that they are supposed to have readability advantages (something that I personally can not see). So in my opinion they really are a variant without any semantic benefit, which is why they could just as well be treated as a mere option.

 

Alex

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Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 4:22 PM

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Subject: [smufl-discuss] Should straight flags be promoted to recommended characters?

Dear SMuFLers,

Something I have been musing about recently, and I would like to ask the
community for its wisdom.

At present, the 'Flags' range (
http://www.smufl.org/version/latest/range/flags/) specifies up- and
down-stem versions of note flags for rhythmic durations from 8th down to
1024th. The specification suggests optional glyphs including shortened
versions of these glyphs for avoiding rhythm dots (on unbeamed, dotted
notes), and also straight flags.

Straight flags are used in works by 20th century composers such as Berio
and Boulez, both of whom happen to be published by Universal Edition.
There is not much (if any) discussion of straight flags in Read, Stone, or
indeed Gould.

My question to the community is this: should straight flags be promoted
from their current status as recommended optional glyphs to the higher
status of recommended characters?

Thanks,

Daniel

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