Bruce Pike <brucep16...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm having difficulty getting midi generation to recognize tied notes. For
> the score below, when I play the midi output the notes sound as individual
> eighth notes rather than as tied notes.
>
> \version "2.18.2" \language "english"
>
> music = \relative c {
> \time 4/4 \key c \major
> e'8 g( g) g( g) e( e) a |
> }
>
> \score {
> \new Staff
> {
> \music
> }
> \layout { }
> \midi { }
> }
Those aren't ties but slurs. Big difference. Take a look at the last
line of
<https://www.bach-digital.de/rsc/viewer/BachDigitalSource_derivate_00005601/db_bachp0967_page020r.jpg>:
there in the middle two bars you have a sequence of slurs in a passage
over two strings (D string and A string) where the first of two
sixteenth notes is fingered on the D string and the second on the
A string. Obviously you would not want to play a~a (a tie, namely just
a single note) for those instances where two a appear in succession but
rather a( a) like with the other two-note two-string occurences.
So the difference between ties and slurs is important. A slur indicates
execution without pause but two separate notes. A tie indicates a
single note that has its value split for notational reasons.
--
David Kastrup
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