Hi Wol, > You keep on going on about "the moment" in the music, and I know what > you mean - you mean the point *on the paper* where the note is printed.
According to 99% of Western musical notation, that's the point at which the note begins. > To me, "the moment" "obviously" :-) means the moment in time the note is > played, which to me is represented by the barline, not the position of the > note! :-) But not every note has a barline associated with the same moment [in time]… How/where do you play those notes? Do all notes in a measure get played at exactly the same time, right where the [leading] barline is? > how often do you get them playing a crotchet as a semi-quaver! From my experience, that's restricted to the band world. In the string world, it's often the opposite: players play notes longer than their written duration. > I've seen music - not much admittedly - that actually writes crotchets > as tied to a semi-quaver or something on the next beat in order to say > "this one-beat note is one beat, not a fraction of a beat!" The only composers I know of who did that as a rule are late 19th Century and early 20th Century British composers (my experience in that area being mostly choral). I must admit, it's quite confusing when you first encounter that notation! Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
