NOTATIO

thanks for the 2nd opinion/confirmation, @OCTO

thanks. In the interim after posting my question, I went back to the score and added the dynamic, and yes, it actually looks more clear this way. As in "yes! this music is still fricken' loud!" it also allowed me to remove an extraneous text expression I had added at one point, which I now...

I'm working on the score of a single movement that is sub-divided into sections, played without pause, but the score does place double barlines at each new section (not "final" barlines, just regular thin double lines.) one passage ends :forte after a crescendo. double barline, then the ne...

ahh, yes, that would make a difference.

I'm curious about the use of a bracket...
wouldn't that sort of clutter a score? (I'm thinking, for example, of a large orchestral score.)

help me understand the origin behind this rule?

I accept it, I'm just curious about "why".

I understand in 4/4 not obscuring the half-measure.

But I can't see the reasoning in 3/4.

I like to understand the reasoning behind a rule. It helps me assimilate it better.

except amalgamating rests on 3-4 and 5-6 turns the notation into 3/2, which is "wrong" in this particular context.

I keep getting tripped up by this rule, about amalgamating or not before and after beats in compound time. So I have a bar of 6/4 | :t :4 :4r :4r :5d | (imagine that this last one is actually a dotted half note rest, and not a dotted note) Can I, or must I not, amalgamate those two quarter note rest...

I find it odd (without seeing more of the excerpt in question) that the slur in the violin part (1st example you posted) stops at the A, the first time the pattern is played, but extends to the staccato G the 2nd time the pattern is played. To me, that isn't particularly precise notation. Besides, u...

It always seems so odd to me. I refuse to use a laptop simply because the screen is far too small, and I hate the constrained feeling of the tiny flat keyboard. I always upgrade my computer to a powerful desktop, never to a laptop. But then, I work from home, so I never really need to be on the road...