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In the piano reduction Carl Nielsen made for his clarinet concerto, which has a prominent snare drum part, he puts the unaccompanied snare drum parts above the grand staff using rhythmic notation. In a footnote he indicates that the pianist could play these cues with two pencils on the body of the p...

I also prefer the first option.

Occam's Razor...

I wonder if this has anything to do with autographers like Langensheidt in Germany (copyist of many of Berg's scores) who used microstylus pens.

BTW, Langensheidt supposedly preferred to work in public cafeterias.

db322014 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2025, 15:06 About Finale, I use it because it is no longer being updated, so I could find the last version for free the web.

And you wonder why they stopped developing it?

I remember our former principal trumpet put a sticker on the front of his folder with a pair of glasses with a slash through them.

In other words: Don't look at the conductor.

The standard indication is "V.S." (volta subito)

Eyeglasses mean something else (pay attention)

May I gently suggest that you (the OP) learn a bit of music theory (interval names, for instance) before asking for help?

There are plenty of on-line resources for this.

You have an error in your engraving: The last note of the grace note arpeggio is A, not f (natural).

Yes, tubas in different keys do exist, but they are not transposing instruments (again with the exception of British band music). In other words, players learn different fingerings for different instruments. Sometimes older music refers to instruments no longer in use (for example the classical Cont...

Oh no, Tuba is *always* written in concert pitch (with the exception of British brass band music).

This does not apply to Wagner Tuben, which are played by Horn players and therefore used to transposing instruments.