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… … …But I'd also like them to follow the rule of flattening the succeeding notes because the passage is moving downward.… … … I'm not sure how strongly that need apply when you have a sharp key signature. Even without a key signature, I think it might depend on the general musical context. Any suc...

Once at the top and once above the piano, and I should have both iterations the same size.

… …Possibly this isn't the kind of psychological difference you had in mind, David, but anyway I found this example of a key signature in an otherwise no-signature context. So, here's a short section from Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 1.… … In the following bars, the music moves clearly towa...

Key signatures, if used, aren't just to minimize accidentals but to convey a tonal center. ... I always use a key sig that conveys the actual tonal center, whether major or minor, and then show the mode by using accidentals. … … … …I haven't given much thought to key signatures in (newer) modal mus...

… … …One of those is done at the cello, trying to play through things to find details that only a live musicians would have found missing! Unfortunately at 82 I can no longer play through all my vocal lines on the trombone, an instrument which in its prime register usually requires taking the same ...

NeeraWM wrote: ↑11 Oct 2023, 10:14 … … … I believe we should keep conventions separated by contextualising their final use.

Yes!

Apart from my comment above, I have a question or two. Can players using parts on iPads etc mark fingerings, bowings, breathings and all the rest in these? Or do they still have to rely on paper parts for that sort of thing? If iPad parts can be annotated in this way, when the string section princip...

I recently received this in an e-mail from the pianist for an eight and a half minute duet song of mine due to have it's first performance in November: “Thank you for the PDF of your song – I will be using ‘real’ paper music (because I’m old-fashioned in these things...), but I suspect both singers ...

… … … … Unfortunately, it appears on page 309 of Behind Bars . I'm ill-qualified to comment on keyboard fingering, being a very poor pianist, but I suspect a problem with this example from Elaine Gould's book might be that it's trying to illustrate too many different things in one example. (I leave...

I thought I ought to check what I did myself. Inconsistent! In a piece written in 2015/16 I use ties, but in one written in 2019 I don't. This probably sums it up: there is no absolute rule and both are correct.

Dashed ties are maybe a bit fussy, but perfectly acceptable if that's what you prefer.