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Sorry to be a nit-picker, but the poco sometimes touches or almost the hairpin. I think that there is an (unwritten?) rule of music engraving that most elements should not appear to touch each other or be too close if there is no apparent reason for that. I'm with John on this. From a distance or a...

Out of curiosity I've just checked an MS score of my own from about 25 years ago in which Clarinet 2 doubles Alto Sax. Even in my manuscript I seem to have kept the Sax in the Clar 2 position. As far as I know, this causes no confusion to anybody; but it's probably not best standardized practice. I...

This page is also an excellent example of the importance of proper vertical alignment!

All of the composers I've worked with that came up in the pre-computer era have always written transposed scores. This is at least partially due to the fact that there was a 50% premium (under the NYC Local 802 contract anyway) to have hand copyists do the transposition, so it was much more expensi...

Of course! That’s one of the things I enjoy about this delightful little community.

So perhaps we should take some of the standard "rules" with a grain of salt. I take it you refer to the 'forest of rests' in Schenker's example? Forbidding dotted rests seems rather stiffly old-fashioned to me, so I agree with you there, John. That Schenker "forest of rests" mak...

I am guessing that you would accept what the composer requested from Anders IF there were another rest that followed, but not otherwise. Is that correct? I must admit that what the composer requested does not bother me as much as it would in 6/8 or 3/4 meter, for some reason. Maybe because of the l...

My understanding of rests, which goes beyond 6/8, is that it is preferred to combine the beginning of a beat grouping, but not the end. This is to preserve the quick identification of the location of beat groupings within a bar. The same applies to augmentation dots. The obvious problem case is illu...

It is common in jazz styles for a marcato articulation to be interpreted as both accented and short. That is not the traditional interpretation. It’s similar to how words take on slightly different meanings in a dialect of a language. Another example is how eighth notes are interpreted as swung (pla...

MichelRE wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 23:50 Is this simply evidence of a certain lack of musical literacy?

I don’t know your specific context; but in many cases, especially internet discussions, lack of literacy is often the cause.