NOTATIO

I would agree, Schonbergian. The first rhythm is more majestic and thus fits its text well. The second rhythm less so and also appropriate to the text.

Bach examples that I am familiar with, like the Sinfonia to Partita no. 2 are clear cases of an abbreviated notation, however.

Thanks, Wescott. Don't have the original manuscript, but the notation seems deliberate to me. The bass part matches the notation of the middle voice: dotted half note then half note. That makes a lot of mistakes in a piece that is actually quite accurately notated. I think that something else was af...

At the end of Ondine, Ravel writes (first edition):
Shouldn’t that be (Peters edition):
What do members think?

I would only use the upside down version on a staff with multiple voices; otherwise it's always above the staff. That's what I do too. But the original question was why we do this when it seems illogical. Our system has evolved over centuries and represents collective wisdom. There are usually very...

Perhaps it goes back to the days of hand copying when it was much harder to distinguish between the two symbols. In an orchestral setting, questions and confusion are shunned at all costs. As I mentioned, Dorico does give the option of a more natural placement of the marcato. Maybe this should be li...

The marcato accent may be placed above or below the notes. Certain things would be impossible to notate if this were not true; for example, in a piano piece, placing a marcato on a low bass note played simultaneously with a second voice above it in the lower staff. Dorico has an option called "...

Perhaps this thread should be consolidated with the other one.

I don't agree that G. Schirmer editions are badly engraved. Their beautiful plate-engraved late 19th and early 20th century editions continue to be used today by many musicians. And the later editions of American classics by Barber, Bernstein, Corigliano etc. are models of editorial excellence and s...

I prefer the accents close to the noteheads and on the staff when necessary. I place the wedges a fourth away from the noteheads, so they would be bisecting lines or in the spaces in some cases.

FredGUnn posted some good ones on the Dorico Forum, and I believe also here. benwiggy and others have also posted some settings here. They may be somewhere in the following:

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