After publishing Dreamstory I began realizing a change in the way I made harmonies and melodies (elegant jazzy chords, anyone?). This, in addition to immersing myself in a plethora of piano music by Liszt, Chopin, Bach and Ravel sparked my interest into (Western) music notation and professional music composition.
Using Sibelius I started out with the default Opus font while manually inputting the notes. I was unhappy with the way the notes looked so ventured on a pursuit for a new music font. I came across Bravura by musical software company Steinberg. Although incompatible with Sibelius a modified version called Taneyev by polymath Andrew Moschou will work. Overall the design seemed too pudgy for my tastes.
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| Taneyev/Bravura |
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| URTEXT Busoni |
Hundreds of google searches later I came across the Urtext Music Fonts on FontShop. Available in a myriad of choices, these typefaces are pretty good renditions of the quality you'd expect from Henle Verlag, Durand, Dover, Schirmer and other famous music publishers. At first I was going to buy Kapellmeister and Clementi but instead went for Busoni. The difference is quite shocking!
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| Busoni + Taneyev + Opus + Gotham + Chronicle Deck |
After a couple of days of fiddling with slurs and expression markings I felt comfortable editing the house style, customizing everything from the thickness of the staff to individualizing the fonts for the title, composer name and copyright with something other than Plantin!
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| Pretty, like Bach's. |
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| Measurement-mania! |
