On 16 Mar 2006 at 0:41, Colin Broom wrote: > I know this goes against what is said in most if not all of the > engraving books, but I have seen it in other scores, and not just > contemporary ones. I'm just wondering if anyone has any particular > opinions about this?
It was quite common in the 50 years either side of 1800, and not just for long ties. But I don't know if I would see that as a reason for adopting it. There are plenty of old traditions that have been abandoned for a reason, such as Charpentier's practice of using beaming to indicate syllabification, with slurs between notes that couldn't be beamed together (the result is strings of 8 and 10 and 12 and more 16ths (no secondary beam breaks) that are just about unreadable, with tiny little slurs to cross bar lines -- increadibly hard to read and figure out). It's perfectly consistent and conserves slurs, but it's very hard to figure out what the rhythmic values of the beamed notes are. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
