Laurie Griffiths wrote:
> "Shortest determines length" works because you can always add a rest to
> delay things, but we don't have negative rests to make things happen sooner.
> e.g. [G4B]zcd (melody is Bzcd)

Or even an invisible rest [G4B]xcd in some cases.

> "Melody note first" pretty much demands "shortest determines length" (or
> else some new mechanism such as numbers after the close bracket) because the
> melody note may be longer than the accompaniment.

Very good point.


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