Re: Aesthetics question -- how would you typeset this?

[Malte Meyn]

Am 03.07.19 um 06:36 schrieb Evan Driscoll:
> It's for cello, and just the part, no score.

Is that playable? I sadly haven’t touched my cello for a few months now 
and it’s 350 km away so I can’t try but I think I couldn’t play that 
passage despite having long fingers …

> It's a transcription of the violin part of the violin+piano arrangement 
> of Danse Macabre. For the violin, it's up an octave and the problem I 
> have with it doesn't arise -- it's comes out much the same as tenor 
> clef. Lots of it can't be reasonably written without treble clef, so 
> being capable in that clef is necessary; the high note I think is a'' / 
> A5 (the A just above the top of the treble staff)

The violin part has b flat in the lower voice, not g. That makes it 
playable on the cello too but brings me to the question how you’ll 
arrange the following measure …

>      >      { s4^"The default, but melody 'lost' in the other visual
>     noise" }
>
>     Looks fine IMO.
>
>
> I also got rid of some elaboration of why I thought this was a problem 
> in the first place, which is that I find it difficult to see the line of 
> the top notes there; to me, the inter-note intervals are kind of buried 
> amidst a ton of stems and staff lines and such. In fact, that actually 
> held one of just two typos I've found that made it through all my 
> proofreading and to the point where I started to actually work from the 
> part. But who knows... maybe I'm the odd one out here and most people 
> *wouldn't* have any problem with it; maybe I'm too stuck up on the fact 
> that I made a typo and am trying to overcorrect.

If it’s hard to read because of a “ton of stems and staff lines and 
such” maybe there is a layout problem, f. e. too small staff size, 
staves not far enough apart. Changing the stem direction shouldn’t be 
necessary.