The music is the chorus part from "Three little maids". My wife says this is
normally sung as 1st sop, 2nd sop, alto. All the other notes are stem-up, and
the performers just sing the top, middle or bottom note as appropriate. I
guess the 2 lower notes are stem down for this one note to emphasise the fact
that it's a # and a nat - either that or the engraver couldn't work out how to
do it otherwise. The chorus would just sing the top, middle and bottom note,
as before, so no confusion.
Truth is, of course, that no non-professional chorus member would ever sing the
Fnat - the 3 principals are all singing F# with the top sops, so the 2nd sops
will follow the crowd and sing the #. Bet all the pros do, too.
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Ellis
To: Phil Holmes
Cc: Neil Puttock ; James Lowe ; Keith OHara ; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Odd output
Thanks Phil, I'm curious about the vocal part. Why is the stemming different
than the piano reduction? As written, it indicates SAA division on the first
chord and SSS (no Alto!) on the second. This may seem trivial and skilled
singers will generally do the right thing. OTOH, I've frequently seen
rehearsals of a 100+ member chorus interrupted when notation less confusing
than this causes someone to ask which notes s/he should be singing.
Cheers,
Mike
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Puttock" <n.putt...@gmail.com>
To: "James Lowe" <james.l...@datacore.com>
Cc: "Keith OHara" <k-ohara5...@oco.net>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Odd output
On 17 December 2010 23:09, James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> wrote:
I am not a vocal specialist but just using this one simplistic example of
C seems erroneous. Isn't the idea of the notes printed at the same moment to
show that they need to be sung at the same moment if you see what I mean? Yes I
am sure that a vocalist can make their own mind up, but if that is the
reasoning then it doesn't matter what we use then does it and you can provide
instruction accordingly.
I've only seen this notation in piano music (I guess Phil's Mikado
example is part of the piano reduction accompanying the voices),
whereby the melodic line is kept separate from the accompaniment.
Attached is another example from the Mikuli edition of Chopin's
Impromptu in G flat major.
Cheers,
Neil
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The beamed version is indeed the piano reduction. I've put some extra info
about this in the tracker, but for the record, here's the vocal and piano parts.
--
Phil Holmes
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