Re: Style for Editorial Rests

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.

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