At 12:57 PM +0200 4/19/08, dc wrote:
Charpentier, in his manuscript, uses the following notation for the end of a vocal melisma:

http://www.philomela.net/ex/charpentier.jpg

With the quarter note at the end of the second measure shifted one 16th of the beat.

How would you render this measure in a performing edition?

Probably 16th B beamed to 16th A (completing beat 3), tied to dotted 8th A beamed to 32nds (completing beat 4).

John


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