NOTATIO

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.

Here is a counter example, also from Beethoven's Sonata op. 7. The last measures of the last movement: op 7A.jpeg op 7B.jpeg At A there are no staccato dots for the broken octaves. At B the staccato dots suddenly appear on all the broken octaves until C. There are no dots at D. Clearly, the differen...

Thanks, benwiggy. That is a related topic of interest. It could also be Pergolesi's standard practice to leave out obvious performance indications on repeated figures. I see this not only in manuscripts but in the first editions of the time. It was both a time saver and a way keep the notation as si...

In the quest for an accurate text, some editors "generally refrain...from standardizing dynamics and articulation in parallel passages. We only standardize where a difference in notation is obviously due to carelessness." (from the notes to the new Henle edition of Beethoven's piano sonata...

Additonal evidence for the long pickup occurs later in the fourth movement of op. 2 no. 3. Here the pickup note, which is clearly related to the opening piclup is trilled, thus lengthening it: op 2 no 3.4 example 2.jpeg The theme of this movement is quite like the opening of op. 2 no. 1 in that the ...

Murray Perahia plays a non-staccato upbeat in his performance of the Sonata op. 2 no. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyFK70i3u Another example of a non-staccato upbeat: the last movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 2 no. 3: non-staccato upbeat .jpeg The upbeat appears without a staccato dot for e...