OCTO wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 13:01
I believe that fingering can be placed on the staff without erasing the background.
Correct. And it is best to place them so the staff line intersects the number at its middle point, or the number is entirely within a space. Otherwise they look very sloppy.
The idea is to place a fingering indication as close to the note head (or stem or beam) as possible, given other considerations. So fingering indications are placed under the slurs, except the one at the beginning of the slur and the one at the end, which are generally (there are exceptions) over the slur but as close as possible to the note head without interfering with the slur. The should not be placed between an articulation marking and a note head, however. (edit. Yet I just placed finger number between an sf and a note stem. So it's complicated.)
There is an art to placing fingering, and I don't think that the principles, as seen in the work of the best plate engravers, have ever been completely explained. I have thought of doing that, since I do so much complex fingering for my editions. Something for the future.
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