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Bernstein's Mass is quite an extravaganza with various bands and choral groups on and off the stage. I guess you might have been playing alto sax in the stage orchestra. I just checked the instrumentation at Boosey.

Sorry, I misread the Gould, MalteM. As you said, she recommends a cue staff above for scores, and suggests placing the alternate "sounding" version on the opposite page for parts. That would also have implications for page turns, and perhaps worse ones, so I think a cue staff is a better o...

I just consulted Gould on the subject of scordatura. She suggests printing the music as it sounds on a cue staff above the other version. This might have page-turn implications, however.

Here is an interesting example of 12/16 with rests in Beethoven's piano sonata op. 110. Note that he avoids consolidating initial 16th rests throughout. And when this threatens to create a little "rest forest" at the end of the first system, he brackets the final "triplet" "...

Anders Hedelin wrote: ↑27 Mar 2023, 08:57
But, syncopated rests, or extended beams in Bach's music? Not for me, thank you.

Amen. As little tampering with the notation of eminent composers as possible. Once the tampering and the resulting distortion starts, there is no end to it.

Actually, as understood it at the time, there were several divisions: 1. Copyists, who worked mostly by eye on transparent music paper. We used only a pen and ink and a ruler, somewhat like Euclid; also an electric eraser and occasionally, a flexible curve. 2. Autographers, who worked on a drawing b...

Poor musicians, when they are to make themselves accustomed to Tom Dick and Harry's individual notations! What happened to the belief in traditional notation? It may not be more right in itself, academically, but it certainly makes reading music easier, and safer, because it's more familiar - if we...

You are very welcome, Neera. The following article will tell you all about Arnold Arnstein. I was his assistant and copyist for about 6 years during the 1970s. He had just finished Barber's Anthony and Cleopatra and Piano Concerto when I came on board, and we did Bernstein's Mass among many other wo...

A belated welcome back, Neera. The transposed vs C score controversy has been going on for at least a century. Of the composers that Arnstein dealt with, it might have been 50-50. There are good strong reasons for both, and these days, one can easily have both versions. And the same with "trans...

For some reason, that explanation resonates to me for rests, but not for notes. I am completely comfortable with :ctime :5 :3r :4d (However, A. Arnstein probably would have split up the :4d which I would have disagreed with strongly.) That fact makes me wonder if I am not just reacting to the :4dr b...