On Tue 11 Jul 2017 at 09:08:07 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Wol, > > > 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!
This was discussed in the thread http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-11/msg00752.html There's an equivalent notation in barbershop where people write lyric extenders on notes that don't require them, which is a pain to reproduce in LP. << { \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) a'1 a'16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 } \addlyrics { x __ y z x y z … } >> BTW I was tidying up some download directories and came across the attached. It or the link might have been posted by one of you, but it shows the kind of compromises made when printing band music with no page turns. Navigating during rehearsals must be interesting. Cheers, David. [Reposted: I forgot to degrade the attachment, so I expect it was rejected as oversize.]
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