Hi Gabriel, > Do you happen to have a good example from a critical edition at your > fingertips? Or does anyone else reading this message know of a good example?
Check anything from the Barenreiter works, e.g. https://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nmapub_srch.php?l=2
I couldn’t readily find an example with a dynamic in brackets, but I’ve seen them all over the place in my scores. > I found Using brackets instead of parentheses for \parenthesize - LilyPond > wiki and used that code to mock up the following: > <image.png> Yes, though usually the entire glyph — rest, note, dynamic, whatever — is completely surrounded by the bracket(s). > My concern with this approach is that busy professional singers might see the > square brackets whilst sight-reading and think, “What does that mean? Am I > actually supposed to observe that quarter rest or not? Do the beats in this > measure add up to a whole note or not?” The distraction could cause reading > errors and lost rehearsal time. We may be using the word “editorial” to mean different things…? I mean “We feel quite sure the composer meant this, but it’s not *actually* in the manuscript, so we want to indicate that it’s our editorial choice.” What do you mean by “editorial”? — Kieren. __________________________________________________ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours.
