The note with stem up needs to be before the note with stem down.
I seem to be in a minority.. but to me the idea of two distinctly valued notes sharing a notehead is just bad. As far as I see the only decision to be made is wether you can neatly have the noteheads touching with the dots close enough
OR
wether to have the down-stemmed note after both the note and the dot.
I think this second version is almost always preferable.

Steve P.

On 3 Feb 2011, at 17:10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

dc wrote:


... And I
think having two noteheads would be more confusing and harder to read.



I don't think there's a need for two noteheads in this situation, though if the time values were doubled, there obviously would be. However, if one were to decide to use two noteheads, I would be inclined to put the note with the longer duration, and its dot, after the note with the shorter, so that the fact that the rhythms of the two outer voices coincide is visibly indicated by the appearance on the page.

ns
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