>>> That's a standard rule of music. You can't put black and white notes >>> on the same stem for instance. >> Actually, this isn't a rule at all. Music printers routinely put >> white and black note heads on the same stem. > I quote Gardner Read "Music Notation" page 69 "Intervals (involving > two note heads) or chords (three or more note heads) may use a single > stem to join all the notes as a unit provided they are of equal value".
18th century music printers and 20th century editors of guitar music followed no such rule. > Just how would you indicate a crotchet (quarter) note starting at the > same time as a quaver (8th) on the same stem? Usually you don't. That wasn't what the original suggestion was. With minims and quavers there's no ambiguity. >> ABC has a somewhat more general representation of a "chord" of notes, >> since each note can have an arbitrary length. But it has some other >> limitations that aren't present in staff notation. For example, in >> guitar (and some keyboard) music, you'll see notes with "dangling" >> ties that don't lead to another note. This means "let it ring", which >> can be done on those instruments. [G,-C-E-Gce] [xxxB] [G,-C-E-Gce] [zzzB] both ought to represent ringing the three lower notes across both beats. In BarFly this doesn't yet work right either on display or playback. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
