NOTATIO

Hi, DavidYoung and welcome to Notat.io! The up and down stems show two voices on each staff, soprano and alto on the top staff and tenor and bass on the lower staff. When two of the voices sing the same note, both notes must be shown. When the two voices sing the same note and the same rhythmic valu...

Has anybody here heard Igor Levit's recording of Op 106? I expect he has the mechanical technique to play all movements at metronome speed: but does he? David, I finally was able to listen to Levit's performance (the live incomplete one on Youtube) and found it close to my own conception of the pie...

Thanks for resurrecting this thread, amosfuegal, because it jogged my memory about some things that might be of interest, at least historically. In my hand copying days, measure numbers were a special fee specified, like all the rates, by the musicians union, because they were laborious and there wa...

The idea of tweaking slurs in a text editor boggles my mind! But then, doing anything in a text editor does the same.

There seems to be some kind of run on this piece. I just answered a question about tuplet slurs and this piece was used as an example over at the Dorico Forum.

It's clear and straightforward to me also and I think it would be a notational crime of the first order to change it in any way. Brahms has a syncopated five beat hemiola going in imitation between the parts and to top it off makes the last three beats in the piano a quadruplet. It's actually a some...

You are very welcome, mburns. Much improved. Thanks for keeping an open mind about the tuplet brackets. Your curved tuplet brackets are a little longer than a normal slur and overlap the stems. I use the opposite strategy and make them a bit shorter. (Actually quite a bit shorter.) They are less in ...

Welcome, mburns! I am glad that you have enjoyed Notat.io. Your engraving is extremely well done. I wish that my first engraving had been as good as this! Just a few things I noticed after comparing it to the first edition available at IMSLP: 1. You are not always following the composer's accidental...

You are very welcome, pinkfrog9. Thank you for your interest. At the moment I am hard at work finishing up an edition of Chopin's etudes that has occupied me for several years and which includes discussions of Chopin's notation and the piano technique necessary to play the etudes.

Probably best to put the dynamics above and figured bass below. That's what I see in the Eulenburg St. Mathew Passion. The tuplet numbers could certainly be on the note head side when necessary. That was actually common at the time.

I too would be in favor of two options for urtext editions: with and without fingering and other interpretive suggestions. And this is quite easy for publishers to carry out technically in the age of computer engraving and online ordering of music.