Johannes Gebauer wrote:
The composer wants a tie from A sharp to B flat (and it sort of makes sense). How would you place the tie, horizontal or (using a slur) not horizontal.
Ted Ross helpfully tells me "in the case of the enharmonic change of the notation, a tie may or may not be horizontal". Very helpful indeed.
Johannes
I would make it a horizontal tie, since any slope in a curved line signals to the musician that the pitch will be following that slant (up or down). Since the actual pitch won't change (other than intonation issues to sound properly with the new chord) the curved line should be horizontal to indicate that.
In my opinion.
Gardner Read (in Music Notation A Manual of Modern Practice, p.111) speaks only of a tie and doesn't mention the use of a slur at all.
Kurt Stone (in Music Notation in the Twentieth Century) doesn't mention ties in relation to enharmonics (enharmonics isn't even an entry in the index!) The same is true of George Heussenstamm in the Norton Manual of Music Notation.
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