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When I browse the Composers category , I always see the following notice: Note: Composers are not sorted on prepositions in surnames. But when I look for evidence of that, I see that there has been at least a very significant effort to put each name where it ought to be. (For example, many Dutch nam...

It's possible that a somewhat consistent answer could be "When it's clear that everyone expects a certain name for this person, use it; if in doubt, use their real name."

I guess that could also be said as "Use the name that will surprise the fewest people".

On this page:

3 Studi da contcerto

the word "conTcerto" has an extra t.

Thank you - I'm guessing you mean in the future I shouldn't make you hunt for the file, since this one is now fixed. I'll do that.

On this page: Friedrich Chopin's Werke

the score of the Preludes has

• Title page

• Blank page

• First page of music

• Second page of music

• First page of music again

• Second page of music again

• Third page of music

After this, everything is normal.

In that case, I think we all agree what the musical aim was. But the original title says "Incipit codes" – it doesn't just say "incipits". Quoting from the Lilypond manual: Incipits It is customary when transcribing mensural music into modern notation to place an indication of ho...

I'm confused by this. Is there an example of the thing that Lilypond ought to be able to do, that it won't do?

I'm pretty sure this is a misunderstanding. Lilypond has a command "incipit", but it's made for prefixing original clefs onto modernized scores of ancient music. Don't try to use it to (for example) add excerpts to a table of contents; Lilypond has no special name for those, they're just t...

Example: the workpage for a book of songs will obviously list a number of song titles. Sometimes, song titles contain poetic language, nonstandard grammar, nonstandard contractions (perhaps to fit the melodic line), and so on. In general, should lists of song titles adhere to the spelling given in t...

Does anyone think Liszt intended these notes? Yes, I think he did. The bass notes on the main beats in this section all follow a pattern of being either "G sharp – C sharp – G sharp – C sharp" or "F sharp – C sharp – F sharp – C sharp", and the contrast with the melody (where th...

For the Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz, I'm certain that the correct solution (if there is one) is to stop thinking, and literally do everything that's in the score – especially making sure that, when the instructions contradict themselves, you must do both at once. I don't know Finnissy's music at a...