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You must love used book stores as much as I do.

I wish I were as disciplined in proofreading as in that book, and that is the main problem.

Just saw that and was about to post. Proof that while old computer programs may fade away, the enprepreneurial spirit will never die.

Not quite sure what they are researching but if it is Mozart's notational practices, the manuscripts and first editions of the piano sonatas are now fairly complete at IMSLP and worth a detailed look through. One does need to be aware that some of the first editions were done after Mozart's death an...

That's an interesting theory, OCTO. But if that were the reason, one would see this more than once in Mozart's piano sonata manuscripts. I haven't. And I note that he seems to have planned out using these two centered beams, because he left extra room between the E flat and F sharp. Compare to the p...

Thank you so much, benwiggy! Maybe a book, some day. I read that the figure above was viewed 1654 times in about a day. How is this possible, bots?
Sorry 1662 as of 2:23 PM EST!

The following passage from the first movement of Mozart's piano sonata K. 330, presents some interesting questions. At the arrow in measure Y, he uses centered beams, rather difficult ones to draw. Yet in previous measure X and with almost exactly the same notes, he doesn't. K 330.1 MS.png It can't ...

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OCTO wrote: ↑26 Aug 2024, 22:21
I would suggest MM to remove all licensing, and make the software open-source, someone might just keep it running.

+1

As you perhaps imply, Schenker's "analytical" slurs don't show phrasing either, but are often brackets that link together the notes that belong to single linear progressions. They are an outgrowth of the legato slurs that one finds in actual music, such as the slur over m. 1 in the example.

If I need to indicate a phrase, then there is some other problem in the writing that must be addressed. In fact, I can’t think of a single instance where slurs as phrase markings were particularly helpful. May we perhaps place a worldwide moratorium on the use of slurs to indicate phrases in any mu...