NOTATIO

And 1# as opposed to #1 for intervals? Never saw it before. It's #1 in all the figured bass I've ever seen. In all my experience as a player of figured basses (and I'm talking about real music, not harmony exercices), I have seen both manners of notation so often that it's difficult for me to say w...

because anyone who can read a score knows the standard transpositions and anyone who plays the instrument in question doesn't need it either. True... in most cases. However, I could imagine it being useful to employ, for the horn, a bass clef with 5 below. That's one case where there (still) are tw...

I've seen a number of cello parts on 2 staves. And I know Xenakis once wrote a piano piece with 10 staves (one for each finger), so whatever works. But I'd suggest only doing something like that if it's absolutely necessary. And I don't think it is here. I agree. I remember having seen 2-stave cell...

I agree that Finale's default line settings are way too thin, especially for staff sizes less than 5mm. They are easily changed though. The also have staff carline and stems set to the same thickness which is awful. Again easily changed. Yes, we who know about it, know that it can be easily changed...

It makes sense that in hand-engraved music the distances between object vary somewhat. It also makes sense that, in good engraving, the distances are varied according to the overall horizontal density of music on that particular system. It is a pity that notation software (that I know) are unable to...

Maybe I should move :6 behind the first triplet...? In that case :n and the grace note should be more compact to the note-head.. I would try that (and then decide which looks clearer). I think the bracket over C and D is not necessary in either case. If you choose to keep the whole note to the left...

Thanks for the comparison, Fred. It very obvious here that Finale's default staff lines are too thin. They changed the default thickness somewhere between versions 2007 and 2010. Before that the default was of a good thickness. That was definitely a change for the worse, and I wonder why it was done...

I agree with John, especially about the page turns. I could never fathom why is it OK to force pianists to stop playing for page turning, or else omit notes. It is obvious, though, that B is not a professionally engraved product. But concerning this particular sonata, there is another winner, IMO. B...

This page is indeed quite an engraving tour de force. In spite of the extreme density, there are quite frequent small cues from the piano part - sometimes just one note - on separate, tiny staves. I am curious, Octo, since you have played this piece, were all those small cues necessary? Were they he...

Bärenreiter Urtext draws a wide fermata over the entire triplet, which to me seems the most correct interpretation. "Collective fermatas" like this do occur once in a while in 18th and 19th century music, they are not quite as rare as one might think, and when written clearly, their meanin...