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I've taken your suggestions as a whole and applied them to my score: removed redundant fingerings, removed the fingering where it was obvious a repeated passage would use the same fingering, moved the fingering to below the notes. I have to say that with your help this passage in particular is looki...

AHA! Octo, I was mistaken, she does NOT suggest that the fingering (or open string) be repeated on a tied note. I was misremembering a comment about repeated notes being marked as such in certain contexts to ensure that a note isn't taken on an alternate string when the open string is desired. (it w...

Interestingly, while looking for trill markings in more recent piano scores in my library, I took a gander at Ravel's piano trio, and noticed that he (or his publisher, Durand) used the wavy line extensions on single notes in the last movement in the string parts. In his piano concerto the wavy exte...

thank-you Octo. I was repeating the open string marking on the tied note since Gould seems to encourage doing so for tied notes. and no need for divisi in this particular case, it's a solo violin passage. I'll probably remove the 2nd open string marking, then, since it is rather obvious that it's a ...

that WOULD explain my instinctive preference for trills with the wavy line extension, since I come from a keyboard background, and to my eye, seeing just the trill articulation creates an uneasy ambiguity for me.

I feel stupid insisting on the open string symbol being beside the note.... I tried it below and it seems to look fine. Do you think this would work? (by the way, I've come across at least one website that puts a letter "o" as the symbol for "open string". I know this is wrong, b...

because it's part of a double stop, I have to place it beside the note, rather than below/above. in the example you posted, all the numerals are "on" staff lines. I will get a picture and post it in a bit. my problem is it's a string crossing: the open string is a higher string (the E stri...

I need to include the "0" for an open string, but the only examples I'm finding are either above/below the staff, or on an open string that happens to fall on a staff line. What happens with an open string that lies in a space? how large should the "0" be? I don't want it to look...

thank-you both for your time and comments. I'll try to adjust placement and element size. If I'm understanding correctly, you would probably leave out the wavy lines entirely since there are no tied notes in this instance? I think my reflex as that there is so much going on in the orchestra part (ho...

Would the following be clear, then?

would I be better raising the lower trills in the first two measures a bit? (the example you posted had stems, mine doesn't get stems until the 3rd measure)