Hi all, addressing a question I received about the attached score where the dotted crotchet in r.h. (middle of the excerpt) was considered to be placed too far to the left I investigated why this looks weird.
Gould doesn't give a proper example of a whole note in parallel with a black note (at least I didn't find one) but some older editions seem to indicate that the left-alignment is considered standard. But Gould states that the semibreve note head should be wider than the black notehead by the proportion of 2 1/2 to 3. And as you can see from the attached excerpt LilyPond has a ratio of ca. 2 to 3, meaning that the semibreve is considerably wider than Gould's suggestion. I'm not sure what to do about this, but I have to agree that in the given example score this ratio looks bad. So I'd like to have a discussion about it here. Maybe it's a quite massive modification but should be consider making the whole note notehead smaller/narrower? Urs
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