This is made worse if you tend to put in full pedal markings (as I do), and have a preference for using leger lines rather than frequent 8va signs, which I don't like because they destroy the visual shape of a horizontal line or arpeggio. The main problem is that there is almost never enough space between the staves, which means that, in even slightly complicated music (and my music does tend towards the dense and complex), markings belonging to one staff are very likely to bump against those belonging to the next one up or down. I am here talking mainly about the common sort of paper with 10 or 12 staves which you would normally use to compose piano music, which has been my main area of activity. Perhaps I am fussier than most, because I suppose many composers manage to find paper that is reasonably acceptable to them, if not ideal.
I'm not sure if it's too far off-topic here, but I thought I might seek opinions here about something that has long bothered me.Īre many people here composers? Do they compose on a computer, or do some use music manuscript paper and write their music by hand in the old-fashioned way? I have considered using a computer, but I have never found a music notation program I felt I could be happy with in the long term (I did investigate this some years ago), and just don't trust computers not to crash and destroy years of work along the way.įor most of my life I wanted to be a composer and have tried writing music on and off over many years - but I find the apparent lack of even nearly suitable music manuscript paper to be a real problem, and it has unexpectedly proved a real hurdle to my own composing efforts.
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