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I agree with the sentiments expressed. An octave transposition clef is conventional (but not strictly necessary) for the tenor voice, and may perhaps be appropriate for octave transposition instruments in a score notated in concert pitch (since some published concert pitch scores have umpteen ledger...

Interesting concept, but… I need to get a couple of copies (at this stage no more) of a 200 page vocal score to a pair of singers. They've already seen a PDF of the full score and have specifically asked not to have to try to print the VS themselves. Binding is possibly the biggest problem. As for i...

There's something rather wonderful about those curved beams. I wonder why it was never (as far as I know) done in printed music?

Yes I agree with you both benwiggy & OCTO. Things (the future of sheet music etc etc) are insecure, but also unknown. Maybe something good will come of it all, though whether or not I'll live long enough to see (and appreciate) it is another question.

I've just spoken to a harp player. She said that in an example such as the one given the player would normally damp at the rests anyway, unless there was insufficient time to do so, in which case there would be no point asking for it. Gould has various things to say about this on pages 364 & 365...

A vertical square bracket such as [ elongated as necessary to encompass the chord indicates not to play arpeggios. (You could then add sempre sim.) The direction ‘sons étouffée’ indicates damping immediately to produce a dry staccato. Otherwise ‘étouffe’ or the English equivalent ‘damp’ immediately ...

Thank you all for confirming what I'd suspected was the case.

On small small cue staves in a vocal score should one always use piano clefs? In the full score the trombone is in the tenor clef but I've used the treble on the cue stave, which looks a bit odd to me, but I suspect is the best practice (after all one doesn't use transpositions on such staves). The ...

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? I know Brendel regards the metronome markings as plain wrong, but I (who can't possibly play Op 106 at any speed, except in my head) would love to ...

Shouldn't that be mezza voce with a feminine ending ‘half voice’ and an example of Beethoven's use of a vocal technique term in instrumental music. To a singer it would suggest singing without full vocal tone usually pianissimo, perhaps achievable here on the piano via the una corda.