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Schott used SCORE plenty years ago (they promoted it and gave it to their external engravers). They moved to finale being concerned about the stalled development of score. They moved to Sibelius driven crazy by incompatibilities between finale versions. But the new Mahler edition is done in the old ...

From the short extract I deduce the following: The measure is consisting of 5 dotted quarters grouped in 3+2. These are divided in 3 eighth each, which results in a 15/8 time. If the engraver now would write a 1/2+1/4 rest instead of the dotted half, this would be against the division of the bar (by...

DatOrganistTho wrote:... reason for the SMuFL. Lots of people bash it, ...

I never heard this, at least in the Smufl-discussion list. What is the criticism? And what the alternative?

Thanks.

I recently stumbled over this rest: It's a whole bar rest in the first part of a divided bar.
Shouldn't it rather be written as a dotted half rest or a half plus a quarter rest?
What do you think?