From Plate to Page with Dorico

[Wescott]

Really terrific work.

I have some random comments on things that stood out to me.

I compared the side by side versions and I prefer Henle's weightier inky look, and find it easier to read. I wonder what music fonts and text fonts would do that the best.

In the LH of bar 64, Henle's 16th and 8th rest have different angles and it looks wrong. My guess is someone used a stamp from a non-matching set.

Something I don’t like about Henle's version is that with all those triplets woven through the piece, I’d strenuously avoid beaming three 8th notes together unless they were triplets. The straight 8ths I’d flag the first 8th.

I also don’t like the octave line punching through the side of that slur in bar 74, though I’d have no problem with the terminal jog going through it from the top, since it’s more or less perpendicular.

I like the size of your staccato dots better.

Starting at bar 68, Henle's version reads better in the LH since they brought those slur starts down as far as feasible.

I don’t like Henle's lack of tuplet numbers at certain crucial places.

At bar 67 they don’t mark the quintuplet.

About those arp lines, I wonder if Henle's scallops are slightly shorter. I might measure. I do like how they are drawn better than Dorico's. What music font are you using.

Anyway, it’s pretty compact, but so much sacrifice at various points.