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If you use the Italian marking, make sure you include the grave accent on the last a: metà.

I think that you are right about a possible ghosting: the manuscript has a very big C while a few numbers later there is an also quite big cut C. Dotzauer was not new to writing a possibly cut-C music in ordinary C. This was his op. 65 (1824-26) when he was 41-3 years old. It is my assumption that h...

Thanks, Neera. Given the context, that staccato looks like an error to me, and I myself would play a slurred two-note group like the rest. The piece is nicely engraved, but I see a substantial error in m. 7 of your second example, so inaccuracy is not out of the question. You are correct, John. A c...

Let's try with this, it is on a page turn:

Hi John!
it's in the Books category because, in theory, it has no opus number.
The autograph should be the top one: https://imslp.org/wiki/Metodo_per_Violo ... Friedrich)

As a cellist who, at least in his times, got very little harmony training until it was too late to really matter—that was the way of the Italian education system—I got used to deduce harmonic function based on melodies. There are certainly many more possibilities compared to when harmonising a bass ...

Hi John, I think this was still all "hand-copied", the fingering, beams, slurs, noteheads, look all too irregular for being made through hammering a lead sheet. But one should ask Schott for this. When did lead-sheet-hammering become the standard and what was used for massive production be...

In this source from 1824-26, Dotzauer's first Violoncello School, there is this time signature: Screenshot 2025-04-09 alle 11.17.31.png While it could be a misprint, it looks to me like a double-common time signature, with the two Cs slightly overlapping each other. Since there is no other cut-C pie...

I certainly hear that as a Dominant upbeat, even if I'm not a pianist. The lack of the staccato dot is a clear clue: tension should be heavier than resolution. Sorry for not reacting sooner. I rely on emails to know what's happening around me and I think there is no way to receive email updates of n...

I prefer change announcement "prendre Flute alto" in regular (but bold is also fine if this is your house style), then boxed when the actual entrance takes place. As you did.