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Your page numbers are off, please fix that atrocity.

I didn't touch them. How are they off? They look fine to me.

I've been thinking about it and realized that the way you have it now is a little conflicting with standard practice, which is why it looks odd to me. You can correct it in one of two ways.

If you intend it as a stylistic indication of a whole section, then it should go above the staff, bold, with a capitalized first letter, and not italicized. Same as you would with a tempo alteration.

If you intend it as a more micro structure comment, then keep it as is and just un-capitalize the first letter. What goes in between the staves more commonly are lines like dolce or espressivo. These kinds of descriptions are italicized and most frequently all lowercase.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

A few more nitty gritty things on your score.

The ties kind of look like slurs. May be the program, but they have too much arch.

The right hand line starting in beat 4 of measure 12 through to measure 13 should be written 8va.

The slur in the left hand in measure 12 should be above the notes.

Measure 11, you slurred to a rest. Just go to the note before it.

Measure 20 - break the beam between beat 1 and 2 in the right hand.

Measure 25 right hand - staccato and legato give mixed signals, not sure what you're intending.

Measure 33 - you can't really right a breve in a 4/4 time signature. It needs to be tied with the other line on a different layer.

Hope that helps, I'm out of time now though. Good luck.

I tried to address the points you made.

http://pdfuploader.com/uppdfs/781/Miniature_no__2_in_D-flat_major.pdf

I don't understand what you mean by the ties and slurs looking the same though. Does it really matter what the curvature is? That's not a technicality, is it?

I am more used to seeing commonly used musical terminologies on scores than English.

Playful-- giocoso or scherzo
Calm -- calmo
Expressive -- espressivo

Best

On measure 33, on the treble clef the quarter note "F" being tied to the whole note on the next measure, I think that quarter note F should be a whole note still tied to the next measure with a quarter rest on top.

A quarter note can not carry the 4 counts in that measure, then tied to the whole note on the next measure.

But shouldn't each of the four beats be made very clear for counting purposes? I could add a stem and flip them to distinguish the voices but that just looks odd. A whole note with a stem! I think the quarter tied over works.

Quarter note is one count, in this case carrying 4 counts tied to the next measure.
I think it needs a quarter rest on the downbeat of measure 33. This will allow for the F to have whole note on the bottom tied to the next measure.

I also wondered on measure 37, if adding ritardando was a possibility.
That would signal the ending even stronger than the pp already in place on measure 38.

On measure 5, left hand accompaniment will be holding the notes while right hand will need to repeat those notes.
I wondered if adding staccatos on the left hand was a possibility.

I was hoping this would imply use of pedal. If this doesn't work well, what could I do to signal pedal without placing pedal? Nikolas had stated that if you place pedal once, you had better place pedal very specifically in the score. I'd much rather give the option of willful pedaling. But like I said, this measure must be pedaled. Thoughts?

I would much rather see a ritardando on measure 5 and a fermata on measure 6 as that measure seem to come to a cadence.

There is no cadence on measure 6. Also, adding a rit. to measure 5 is definitely NOT what I had in mind.

I do, however, like your comment about the rit. on measure 38, easing into measure 39.

Could you answer my question about pedaling in measure 5?

Joel,

In general pianists (of a certain level and above) will pedal away at will. When you have held notes that are IMPOSSIBLE to be held with your fingers down, then it's very obvious that the sustain pedal will be used in 95% of the times. The remaining 5% will be held with the sostenuto pedal, but this will probably need special instructions, since it's not too frequently met.

But your very first bar is again wrong! There's a quarter note rest missing from bellow the very first half note! Otherwise it's easy to assume it's the same voice/layer, and thus the measure would have 5 beats... :-/

I don't understand. There IS a quarter note rest below the half note.

Indeed there is NOT.

Confused.

In the SAME staff, not the one bellow!