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Every table of page sizes I can find gives the shorter side (width when portrait) first. This table give the various ISO and N American paper sizes thus https://www.agooddaytoprint.com/page/paper-size-chart-faq . FYI the JIS (Japanese) B sizes are slightly larger https://www.papersizes.org/japanese-...

I would personally find the single value (vln. 2) clear and simple, and I would expect to write it; but I'm not certain of the officially approved (by whom?) rule.

Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen posted this on Twitter (X) this morning: “Note to all composers: write your scores in C. The usual octave transpositions are OK. I spent 6 weeks deciphering the chords in Elektra. After that I decided I’ll not put any conductor colleagues through that unneces...

As a BTW addendum, in Scottish, English and Irish poetry &c, ‘adieu’ has usually been pronounced rather differently from the French word, although generations younger than mine (I'm 83) seem inclined to pronounce it as if French, even when they are speaking English. I wonder how it is pronounced...

Thanks, David. It might in some cases, but do you have a preference if there are no special considerations? I think since I've been using computer notation (2001) that I've usually placed the dynamic before the subito . I think I did the same in manuscript fair copies, but I'll need to check to be ...

John Ruggero wrote: ↑11 Mar 2024, 11:43And which form is more common in the past and today: subito and sub. or subito and sub. etc.?

Might that, sometimes at least, depend more on space or alignment with other things than on any absolute preference?

FWIW in the many thousands of words I've set over the last seven decades, I've always tried to keep the capitalization and punctuation the same as in the original. Sometimes there has been no capitalization, sometimes almost no punctuation and sometimes everything has been as near standard (includin...

Very interesting. I don't often write repeats; but I've checked a manuscript of mine from the 1980s which has repeats coinciding with clef changes, and I did not use the Gould/Dorico notation for that. I agree, the Gould/Dorico way at first sight gives the sense of an extra bar between the repeat si...

benwiggy wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 15:50That having been said, if you are going to change anything, I'd suggest hyphenating 'secrets' as 'se - crets'.

You are correct: thank you.

Thank you: I thought it looked a little odd. A question I should perhaps now ask myself is how much effort ought I to put into changing a passing minor ‘engraving’ problem on one page of a 315 page full score from 2012? (This problem arises from a recent edit.) There are a couple of other places whe...