Notating a bar

[Hector Pascal]

Hi all,
I have composed this 9/8 bar of piano music. Am I on the right track in regard to its notation?
The top staff is treble clef and the bottom staff is bass clef. As for the slur and the crescendo, I squeezed them in, but am open to other positions.

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Thanks and best wishes,
Hector.

[Schonbergian]

I would remove the rests in the latter third of the measure as they add visual clutter and the beaming already conveys distribution between the hands.

[John Ruggero]

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[Hector Pascal]

Beautiful! Thanks all
Cheers,
HP.

[benwiggy]

Any reason for the small noteheads?

[John Ruggero]

Great question. To avoid using a tuplet bracket, since I was assuming that a precise rhythm was really not to the point here and perhaps even undesirable. (If the composer desires an exact rhythm, he would use large notes and a tuplet bracket.) The notes are really a written-out arpeggio of voices "below" the final chord, whether or not the composer wants them held through with the pedal, and there is a tradition of writing out such arpeggios and roulades in small notes.

[Anders Hedelin]

I can see the reason why the full-sized B flat in the left hand should be matched with an eighth rest in the right hand, but since the arpeggio shares both staves, is it necessary? It made me a little bit confused at first, I have to admit.

[MalteM]

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IMHO you need those hooks for hand distribution, the stem directions and beaming are clear enough.

[John Ruggero]

The rest was troublesome to me too, Anders. I had considered making it a dotted eighth-rest, but that wouldn't be quite correct either. So if you find it confusing and are OK with leaving it out, that's good enough for me.

[John Ruggero]

MaiteM, if you meant that the hooks are unnecessary, you may be right. If they are overkill it would be great to leave them out. I just wasn't completely sure that it was clear enough without them or r.h. and l.h. indications.