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Regarding editorial clef changes: they can be done well and in tune with the composer's thinking, or badly and distort the musical picture. Here is an example that I found in about a minute in Bach's Goldberg Variations. Fine composers try to place their clef changes in musically logical places, of...

Well, John, of course you are right, but probably not all things are equal: beaming(1) can definitely convey musical meaning and should be preserved, while clefs can maybe modernized with little harm… _______ (1) beaming in XVII-XIX-centuries Opera and in general singing parts only follow a conventi...

As for the first issue, a dashed tie is enough, no need to a dedicated note in the critical commentary. Usual convention for cautionary accidentals is round brackets, in order to distinguish them by the square brackets used for accidentals actually missing in the source(s). In practice, I don’t feel...

Oddly enough, the issue is only present in "normal" octaves, i.e. when both notes are in the same voice, while the alignment of the sharps is normal when the two notes are in two different voices. Look at the picture.

Windows, Sibelius, November font.

Thank you Ben. Sibelius can adjust alterations left-right position very easily, so it's something I can fix in a snap. I was wondering how a so fine font has such drawback. However, the manual coming with the font states very clearly that Sibelius for Windows has a bug preventing the font from relia...

Probably. Is there anything I could do to fix this issue?

I am using November font with Sibelius, and I found an alignment problem with sharps in octaves, see the image. No other font in SIbelius has this issue. I have used November2 in Dorico with no issues. November2 is somewhat different from November which is a Sibelius specific version of the same fon...

From what I understand, they still have all their data, but they don't want to simply "restore the backup and carry on" -- because those systems would have the same vulnerabilities. It's going to take time to migrate their data to new systems. I wholeheartedly hope so. However, their repo...

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...