number in [square brackets]:
Such a number can help to show a principially unnecessary finger number in a difficult surrounding for helping the understanding of a “mess-situation”
An encircled number can inforce an important finger position in a complicated situation.
Simple bracket: Exception: unique stepping out of a position: Instead of writing
it is sufficient to write:
with a simple bracket to define a single step out of the position after which the finger at once returns into his previous place where it is “at home”.
Like it is already habit in the publisher´s prints with an arc over the number. But in opposite to them I write it exactly over the point (of the “time axis of the music system”) of the proper change.
Other than the musical repetition is this piano fingering repeat sign.
It saves a lot of useless work, applied with an arrow you see that it is valid for a longer time.
Also at an octave arpeggio-bracket and at a little arc for an always repeating motive an arrow can signify a repetition:
Empty octaves are mostly played with the thumb on one side. That´s why we don´t write it´s number but write the possible fingers 3 or 4 or 5 in the normal five-finger-position-way (see also example 10):
Filled octaves have always finger 1 and 5 at the edges, if they have three voices you write only the middle voice, if they have four voices it is only necessary to write if you take finger 3 or 4 because you always need 2. Lines over and under a number show that the number relates to the middle of a chord (see also example 14).
In special cases you can relate a line of chords also on a five-finger-position with exceptions:
At the often-used octave-arpeggio in the same sense the octave grip is marked not with 1 and 5 but easier visible with the so-called octave-bracket which contains the necessary middle-numbers 2 or 3 or 4.
At arpeggio over more than one Oktave you can make a little sharp edge at the beginning of the bracket to indicate over-size:
Sometimes it makes sense for an exposed note to give it a better “appoggio” maybe for pianissimo playing by using two or more fingers! This will be marked with 1+2 or with 2+(3) if one of the fingers will be released right after the note.
If the printing takes the right hand in the left system or otherwise I clear the situation by a hand-separation-line which should begin and end at the internal line of the opposite system:
see also example 22:
E.g. with wandering sixths the division of the hand is symbolized by two numbers above each other separated by a line; and until the next position you continue with two-finger-positions (one may have even three…).
With this way of writing you save nearly half of the numbers of a conventional fingering as it is often seen, and you recognize at once where the hand goes.
The dividedposition can also appear one part after another: This will be made clear with a longer line:
If one part of a divided position finishes and the hand continues to play in the other part, the separation line will edge down or up to the finishing side:
Especially in impressionistic literature when hands disturb each other because of place restriction I connect the two note-heads with a zig-zag-line to give the attention a “flash” on this collision danger. If in this context a hand must rapidly move upwards or downwards I put a vertical arrow.
It cancels all exceptions of before. Logical that it has to be followed by a finger position number.
The mini-clear-sign starting directly from the head of a note shows that it has to be finished earlier than its value for reasons of technical realisation of a passage; it has to be stopped at the moment of the vertical line (see example 24 and 28).