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You are very welcome, DatOrganistTho. Thanks for introducing me to this program. It turns out that the "glitch" was really the result of my inexperience with the unique terminology of MuseScore. They call a notehead a "note" and anything with a stem a "chord". So had I ...

Yes, it would be almost essential to have the composer's MS, Peter; I hope that it is available. Written communications between composer and copyist would also be helpful. I think that the multi-staff layout helps the player grasp the concept behind the notes, which is more important in this case th...

Dear Wess, I am very sorry for the unforgivably long time in responding to your help. I just tried the smaller brace and it works beautifully through a surprisingly wide range of staff distances, which is perfect for my application. Thank you so much.

It was so well said by DatOrganistTho that I immediately downloaded MuseScore and set to work notating a couple of measures from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 13. I was immediately impressed with how well thought-out the program is and how easy it is to use. However, I did run into an immediate gli...

After all of this very interesting discussion, I looked through the two original online scores again, admittedly not in great depth, but enough to get a feel for them, I think. They are clear and seem to be the way the composer wanted them to be. The notation is idiosyncratic but reflects the compos...

OCTO., I think your version with a single trill is best; I think most musicians feel a difference between a trill and a tremolo. Peter's suggestion seems advisable as well.

One issue is that measure 3 is badly notated. The dotted quarter should be a quarter tied to an eighth. Then the quarter could be on line 2 and the eighth on line 3 and you could have a nice half measure split on a long note, if desired. I am sorry but I don't quite understand the the part about spl...

B, without a shadow of a doubt. I see no benefit in reading and only potential disorientation in A. In my experience, measures are almost always split in half in modern times, which limits them to binary compound meters. This is generally for the best. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, measures ...

I threw it in for fun, Knut, knowing that someone was going to comment on it. I do think I've have seen it somewhere (but where?) as a way to say that the tremolo is unmeasured. And it might also give more continuity in replacing the ties, if someone felt that the player might accent the downbeats. ...

OCTO., I recently asked a general question about workflow at MM Forum and most of those who answered work as Peter seems to work, going through the music in passes, notes, then shapes, then expressions etc. with layout at the end. This would seem to be the most efficient approach given Finale's orga...