NOTATIO

I think that rhythms B and C (intelligently applied, of course) are fine in solo piano music or orchestral scores, for example, where there might be other voices to clarify them. However, I believe that Arnstein would have decomposed C into D, and B into the suggestion by MaiteM when such rhythms ap...

Why are publishers always trying aggressively to complicate what's already simple and good? One theory: The rules of music notation as used by the best composers of that time were highly complex, because they reflected the complexity of the music. But engravers were also dealing with the haphazard ...

Although I constantly deal with modern vs. authentic stem direction in Beethoven's pianos sonatas, the absurdity of the some of it struck me forcefully in the following example: In the first edition, the stem direction is maintained in the left hand, since the chords are a unit. This is the usual pr...

Many years ago, Heinrich Schenker showed why it is a blunder to rewrite passages in older piano music to take advantage of the later increased range of the instrument. A composer takes range into account when a piece is conceived and uses any constraints imposed as a creative incentive. As well, the...

Thanks, Ben. Oh well. I hope they add this along with the other stuff.

Don't know anything about the jazz ornaments, Ben, but can Dorico do turns and trills with the various accidentals with all the combinations of plain, bracketed, or in parentheses? That is, for example, a turn with a top flat plain, bottom sharp in brackets etc.? And can it do trills with the accide...

Thanks, benwiggy. This indeed is what makes Dorico so intriguing for editorial work. Keeping my fingers crossed that they will add the other stuff I need.

I meant the same as Schonbergian. One would think that thick horizontal line should continue through the barlines without the additional note head if it simply ties through or continues the same pattern. Your example looks like the note or pattern should restart at the beginning of each measure. And...

One of the benefits of understanding Beethoven's standard practice is that it allows one to ferret out small notational errors in the first editions when the autograph doesn't exist. Here is a simple example from the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 10 . no. 1 that occurred a few minutes ago...

The note looks to me like it replays at the beginning of each measure, not as if it is tied. In any case, I don't think that a tie of any kind is necessary for the diamond note with this style of notation.