NOTATIO

I just came across Malcolm Bilson's lecture on "Knowing the Score" on Youtube. At 4'50 he mentions the Beethoven Sonata. He is not bothered by the missing dot at the beginning, because, well, an upbeat is always short and light, so why add an extra dot, it's kind of understood how to play ...

I guess it should be C as in m. 173, a simple typo, no?

You can follow the imslp link. All parts are available there too.

That's not Times New Roman, it's FreeSerif, the default font for text in MuseScore. I've used different fonts in the past, but now I want the guarantee that the score opens properly on any system (and I will only use fonts with a free software/free culture license). What is wrong with it specifical...

Have you checked how Sibelius fonts (Opus etc.) handle this problem? If I remember correctly, Sibelius has some unusual solutions for standard font problems (e.g. within the Opus Chords font). Maybe it is enough to replicate the way symbols are positioned within Opus Chords etc.

So I did a little experimenting, trying to come up with a sans serif music font and testing whether it looked more "contemporary". Easier said than done. First thing I noticed is that there are different classes of music symbols that react differently to the attempt of making a sans serif ...

In modern book typography, the first case would look like this: [[American English: em dash, no space]] Then would Thy name—the Just, the Merciful— Strange dubious ... [[British English: en dash, space before and after dash; in the example below the en dash looks rather short, it should be longer th...

I saw this and thought of this thread: http://dreibholz.com/berlin-philharmonic-notation/ Here is a video explaining the reason behind the project: https://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/commercials/22950015/ I wonder if the font has ever been used in real life. And I wonder what members of the orches...

More likely, LP = LilyPond?

Stravinsky again, 1927. Bass clef looks kind of sad, though.