Re: 19th-cent. accidental notation

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/17/2013 04:48 PM, Luca Rossetto Casel wrote:
> In present editions, this notation is generally uniformed to the modern one -
> eventually putting the added alterations in parentheses or brackets.

Is this really a case where brackets would be used?  The typical reason for 
inserting a bracketed accidental would be a case where the accidental is missing 
in all sources, but musical context makes it almost certain that the accidental 
should be there.

The situation described here is slightly different as it isn't so much a 
_missing_ accidental in the real sense, as a different stylistic convention for 
placement of accidentals.  It seems like the sort of circumstance where most 
editors and editions, including Urtext, would feel comfortable placing the 
accidentals without comment or brackets.