> Where it suffers is in notating timbre There are a great many annotations to individual notes: lines, accents, staccato dots, slurs and brackets, dynamic mar

> Where it suffers is in notating timbre There are a great many annotations to individual notes: lines, accents, staccato dots, slurs and brackets, dynamic markings etc. etc. that indicate timbre, and you've always got the fallback of just writing out what you want, and it's even acceptable to not even use Italian these days!