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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...