NOTATIO

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.

Necessary? Possibly not; but then maybe yes. ie Unequivocal if you do have it.

I would write tutti unis.

Maybe (non troppo).

Firstly, there doesn't seem to be any visual reason why Beethoven might have meant to write these few bars in the treble clef. Secondly, the sudden descent to low register in the LH here, rather than a little later, seems altogether too effective to be an error, especially without any actual evidenc...

I've always (since my teens in the 1950s) labelled instrument changes twice. Initially at the first available rest with ‘take Cor Anglais’ (or whatever) and then again (without ‘take’) immediately before or at the first playing of the new instrument. I can't remember which orchestral player advised ...

No!

Looking at notes to the recent Bärenreiter edition, I see some people do believe clefs are missing. Why?