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Does anyone else find the placement of the fingering problematic?


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In an ideal world it would be very simple: No ties = downbeat emphasis at the beginning of each measure. Regular ties (or dashed ties for the ultra-logical, like Bartok) = no downbeat emphasis. Since it is far from an ideal, logical world, composers have written non-tied tremolo notes but wanted no ...

On the classical side, the Borromeo String Quartet has been using laptops since 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/arts ... tring.html

A little more on this. Here is an original sketch of the variation with my attempted transcription. The small notes are conjectural. (Other opinions on the text are welcome.) While not conclusive, it certainly supports the traditional reading. One notes that in its original form, the jump was not as...

In other words, unless the piece is a page or two, the days of da capos and such are over.

Thanks, bophead. Yours is more literal than mine but seems to give the same sense, so I guess I wasn't too far off. The whole section refers to Stärke (strength) and Schwäche (weakness) in conjunction with the dynamic signs, so those terms seemed to roughly translate into what we would call loud and...

You are very welcome, Bernd14. It's an interesting case.

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The symbol that looks like a trill squiggle finished off with an upward flourish is a "custos" which was usually used as a guide or warning at the end of the staff to indicate the pitch of the next note on the following line. Here it is being used to show the first note of the abbreviated ...

BUT with 12 years of engraving experience, I would consider the clefs here as NOT missing. Why? Because he would change clefs onto an E going down, while in the previous bar he was going up to F in bass clef. Why change when there is no practical reason to do so? Yes, that is one of the strongest r...

Diabelli Variations are one of the most contemporary pieces ever written for the piano. When I first encountered the Diabelli variations as a young person, I was hooked and played it constantly, however badly. It constantly stuck me that there was nothing else like it and it seemed to contain a new...