Today's peeves

[bunrab]

Dear Composer:

What is it with changing clefs in the middle of a freakin' line?? I can cope with your absurd choice of key signature; I deal with your changes of time signature every few measures; but keep the music to one clef per part, dammit! If you weren't dead, I'd kick you in the shins.

Sincerely,
Kelly


Dear Publisher:

I like reading a book to be an adventure in literature, not an exercise in proofreading. If you do not hire a copy editor, I will hunt you down and kick you in the shins.

Truly,
Kelly


Dear #1 Cat:

Stop eating my yarn.

Love,
Human #2

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

If that were popular music, I'd say you were trying to play something by King Crimson, or Yes, or Rush. :-/

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

All of those are things I like in pop music - and I'll bet that King Crimson writes each part in only one clef, if it gets written at all!

As it happens, it is freakin' Percy Grainger and Malcolm Arnold against whom I am currently holding a grudge. Percy especially. Who the hell writes a time signature of 2.25/4, along with switching to tenor clef in the MIDDLE OF A BAR???

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Must be the same guy who worked as an engineer at Spagthorpe and designed the Spagthorpe Wrestler with a three-and-a-half-with-a-wiggly-bit-thrown-in-for-good-measure stroke engine.

[landley.livejournal.com]

Did you kick the cat in the shins?

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Even if I could manage to clearly define a cat's shins, I probably wouldn't kick a 20-year old cat.

[elfbiter.livejournal.com]

Was the proofreading pre- or post-spellchecker program? Some publisher (of both books and newspapers) trust the proofreading programs all too much.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

There may well have been a spell-checker, but there was no proofreading - nothing to keep the character's name from changing by a letter a couple of times each page, or even to capitalize the beginning of every sentence.

[evilsithlady.livejournal.com]

That was an annoyance with the early Harry Potter books - the editing was crap.

I also don't like it when composers change clefs. Though sometimes, the change makes the music easier to read.