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I couldn't agree more. Yesterday I was proofreading an upcoming edition and even the horizontal spacing affected the stem length and beam angle of exactly equal situations. For example, in a system with only 3 bars (the first system), longer stems were preferable, while 4 bars and more cramped situa...

*Much to learn still I have* would a wise master say! In this last example it bothers somewhat less because the notes are still within the staff. When I saw Debussy’s Suite (or Ravel in several points) showing outward pointing notes from the 5th line up without neither rest not anything else below i...

I'm now hopelessly into the rabbit hole! I've copied your excerpt from Beethoven 109 into Dorico and played a bit with the voicing. Here are my notes/questions on this: Screenshot 2025-05-28 alle 10.49.46.png b 87 if the B is the tenor voice, why is there a rest in the left-hand, below the bass note...

Simply fascinating!
Thank you so much for this!

Nice!
What about the last A, then, the one in F clef?

Going OT now: would there be a hand shift in the RH between the 1st and 2nd beat? If so, the A would be playable by the RH, I think, being within the octave. If this ruins the legato, though, then no.

I cannot say if it is only the rules, but to me having the stems up without something else causing it is highly disturbing and would not help my reading or understanding of the melody or of the voicing. But hey, plenty of composers wrote every stem to the left of the notehead until not so much ago, ...

Thank you, John, and yes, I had seen your post on Beethoven, it just went much beyond what I could comprehend as a non-pianist :-) I agree with you the Debussy may have known exactly how he wanted to notate things but, in several, too many places, he (or the copyist of the first edition, or both) wa...

I have been tasked with engraving a new edition of Debussy's Suite Bergamasque . After consulting most available sources (notably: Complete Debussy by Durand, first edition by Fromont, modern Henle & Barenreiter), I have come to the conclusion that Debussy liked to omit rests while keeping the e...

Assuming this is 3/4, I prefer the upper picture (two quarter-rests).

No, I meant in 5/4, since we were discussing about 4+1.