Fingering convention
Apologies for the ambiguous title. In my sheet music the fingering number is either below or above the note - is this supposed to indicate which hand to play it with? i.e. above the note for right hand and below the note for left hand? I ask because I can find no source that confirms this, but it is very ambiguous since the hands get close together and when it says 1 it is not at all clear whether to use the right thumb or the left thumb. This is a 4 voice Bach fugue, Henle urtext edition.
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In four part harmony arranged for piano or condensed into two staves, each staff has two voices, where in each of these, one voice is written with stems pointing upwards, and the other voice is written with downward-pointing stems.
I agree that it can be ambiguous sometimes, but in four-part harmony for piano, each hand should play two voices (i.e. from the corresponding stave).
The fingering marks are normally written above the upward-pointing notes or below the downward-pointing notes for the relevant voice.
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