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  1. August 25, 2021

    Protip: Changing Time Signatures

    By A-R's house editors

    Time signatures are a fundamental attribute of musical notation that indicate the meter in a piece of music. In general, when changing time signatures in an edited score, the score should follow the source. However, there are certain issues to keep in mind that depend on the type of music being edited.

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  2. July 07, 2021

    Protip: Changing Key Signatures

    By A-R's house editors

    Starting in the late eighteenth century, it became more widespread for composers in the western canon to notate changes of key signature within a single piece or movement. When incorporating key signature changes into an edition for the Recent Researches series, make sure to keep three important features in mind: double barlines, cautionaries, and cancellation.

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