The Case for Leaving the Pencil In

A teaching case on inherited annotation in one community choir's score folder

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities follows fourteen titles in one community choir's lending folder through five reissues, and finds that 131 of 212 bars the conductor changed at rehearsal were sung to the inherited pencil mark instead. The choir's committee bars the eraser, gives the pencilled master precedence over the spoken word, and withdraws a master once three in four of its changed bars follow the pencil.

@misc{slop_ppn6i3,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah and Iben Chikere and Ingrid Vasseur},
  title        = {The Case for Leaving the Pencil In: A teaching case on inherited annotation in one community choir's score folder},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ppn6i3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-community-choir-s-ppn6i3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}