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I can sit in my chair and browse through manuscripts from Vienna, Naples, Paris, London, etc. OT: À propos London: the British Library is still down since the ransomware attack in October 23: https://www.bl.uk/. One of the first reports of BL stated that the scanned files may never be recoverable a...

OK: Verdi, Giuseppi. It seems to be common in formal and administrative use. True. It’s incorrect, though (see https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/consulenza/%C3%A8-pi%C3%B9-corretto-firmare-nomecognome-o-cognomenome/93#:~:text=Come%2520si%2520pu%C3%B2%2520verificare%2520in,Mario%2520Rossi). Notwith...

When I need to, I use Aralda by Favini: https://www.favini.com/gs/wp-content/up ... 022-IT.pdf

I second John’s opinion: italics for words in languages other than the main language. “Adieu” has been incorporated in English, though (Marilyn Monroe sang “said adieu to love, don’t ever call again”), so no need for italics in this particular case. However I’d italicize the word in the score under ...

Uppercasing first letter of verses is a typographical device which only makes sense in a book. It is probably used because short verses seeem “hanging in space” when lower cased. They don’t make much sense in a music score, unless the capitalization is intended as a way to mark the beginning/end of ...

I have no suggestions of ornaments resources in different languages, but I am wondering. Speaking of baroque ornaments, I’d say most ornaments are kept in their original language: pralltriller, coulée de tierce, appoggiatura… Some others are translated: mordente/mordent/mordant… To make things more ...

the problem with the Italian "standard" terminology is, how do you determine where it means "continue to use the pedal as normal until the end" and when it actually means "hold your foot down on the pedal constantly without lifting it until the very end of the piece"? ...

What about “Tenere il pedale abbassato fino alla fine”?

I think that I would play this one as a very fast roll starting on the second beat: Acciaccatura.png Precisely. I can add its name is “tierce coulée en ascendant”. A French name because it is mainly used by Couperin and other French composers. In English it’s something like “upgoing third with a pa...

However, I remember that in Beethoven times pianos had a pedal-driven action which put a felt between the hammers and the strings, named “sordino”. Am I wrong?