Hi Kira, > If it’s for a whole section, either it’s the composer or the orchestra > librarian. Who cares of the conductor changes it, that’s their choice. > If it’s for a single player like a keyboardist, I would be inclined to leave > more open to the player - I am a keyboardist with relatively small hands, and > many times I physically can’t do the fingerings the composer puts in, and so > printed fingerings do clutter the score when I have to just cross them out.😁 > Also, pedaling may change based on the acoustics of the room…
Yep. Over-marking is a hallmark of 20th Century [mostly academic, ivory-tower] thinking. The norm nowadays is to reduce markings to the bare minimum, and actually trust the musicians to… you know… make music. ;) Really, this is just the pendulum swinging back to pre-Romantic practice, which [rightly] entrusted a huge amount of performative latitude and trust to the performer, instead of dictating every dot and dash and dot-dash [etc.] “from on high”. Cheers, Kieren.
