Re: Best practice with inconsistent "à 2"

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.08.2014 15:10, schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > I have a large romantic score in front of me. In the handwritten
> > score the \partcombine stuff is done inconsistently for unisono
> > sections: sometimes it's written as one voice with "à 2", sometimes
> > as two voices, i.e. one notehead with stems up and down. So far I
> > can't see any reason for this inconsistency.
> >
> > What would people with more experience with orchestral scores suggest:
> >
> > - transcribe everything as it is in the model?
> > - make it consistent:
> >    - use "à 2" always?
> >    - use voices always?
>
> Assuming that this becomes a critical edition,

For now we're only preparing performance material of a piece where only 
the full score has survived. But in the back of my mind I keep the idea 
of making it a critical edition once ...

> I suggest that you use
> "à 2" consistently and note deviations of that in the editorial marks
> section.  The score is then simply less crowded.

That's exactly what I thought. But I'll check Alex' suggestion first. 
That sounds at least very plausible.

Best
Urs

>      Werner
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