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I'm imagining that it was placed above as a way of avoiding the extra space it would cause before the note, considering there is that curved bracket between the low C and the E.

there is a courtesy accidental.. above the E.

it's from the score, but the part is on one staff, the same disposition.
The divisi is too short to really warrant having an extra staff for that passage.

when there is a passage of divisi, for example in a violin section, and a unison note occurs, with an accidental (for example, both parts playing the same C#). but one part is playing a half note (white notehead) and the other is playing a quarter note (black notehead), should the accidental be repe...

they imply a dynamic only for the right hand notes, but of course, the cresc. part of the dynamic is impossible on a piano.

the problem with the Italian "standard" terminology is, how do you determine where it means "continue to use the pedal as normal until the end" and when it actually means "hold your foot down on the pedal constantly without lifting it until the very end of the piece"? t...

OCTO wrote: ↑11 Aug 2023, 15:40 Quite a of job in a vector editor, I would just put the hairpins above.

I believe Dorico has an option for doing this automatically (only for stems).

Anders, there's no "rule" as far as I know, but there are simply instances in my score where the placement of hairpins becomes clunky when there are lots of cross-staff beaming and stems. John Ruggero earlier in this thread posted an excellent sample from some Ravel that had lots of hairpi...

Felipe Copaja wrote: ↑10 Aug 2023, 01:43 Just in case it helps, when placing hairpins I never cross stems.

Felipe

the image you posted has the hairpins crossing stems.
did you mean beams? (stems are the vertical lines, beams are the horizontal/diagonal ones)

maybe some misguided effort to have the voice avoid doing an a-mennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn rather then an a-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?

it's a hand-written score, I'd chalk it up to a writing error.