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John, I was asking thre OP.
However I am not sure what completely neutral dynamic is.
In Opera singing, mf is the “normal” “conversational singing”, think of most secco recitatives. I guess that is what you mean?

The mf is considered the central point of the loudness scale in classical music, no? That would be the “no soft neither loud” John us asking for. Mf is halfway between f and p. Mp is a bit softer, and so on. However loudness is not absolute, otherwise music notation would have developed something as...

It’s perfectly possible to change one or more single glyphs in Sibelius, and of course it’s easy to select an entire different font.
I used to change the parenthesized accidentals to bracketed accidentals (for critical editions). I used to change the clefs as well.

Bingo!

Could this be another example of Beethoven anticipating our present-day feathered beaming, and would he have written the passage like this if that notation had been used at the time? You could probably drop off the question mark. Admittedly, I am no Beethoven expert, but I can say baroque and late ...

Good news, the MTF fonts are available again. They have been revised and made available on Notation Central.

https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/music ... -released/

https://www.notationcentral.com/product-tag/mtf/

Just as John says. Dynamics above and figures below, this is the standard in any edition of baroque music. However, as a continuo-player I have to say that there is much to be said in praise of figures above. This is the standard in manuscripts and it’s more logical because this way you have the bas...

Every publisher can present whatever they want and call it an "urtext" edition, and the term has become a selling point, much as "all-natural" or "organic". has become for food. … Since I think that the term urtext has become somewhat tainted, Precisely, a selling poin...

Here is said Musescore company is (or was) based in Russia: https://musescore.org/en/node/301153

In 2021 there were rumours about Audacity having become a spyware: viewtopic.php?t=765

That’s all I know.

I’d say you can and should leave out the lyricist’s name since it’s the same for all pieces and it’s already written on the front page, just like you leave out the composer’s name from - say - each of the sonatas in a volume of Mozart Sonatas. The traditional lyricist-on-the-left-composer-on-the rig...