To: "Fisher, Allen"
I'm engraving a 4 and/or 5 staff choral piece. One page has many
bracketed tuplets on it that have slurs that fall on the same side as
the tuplet bracket sits. I'm unsure where the slurs should be in
relation to the tuplet brackets. My scouring of Read, Ross, and the
like
seem to contradict each other.
Are tuplet brackets allowed to fall inside the staff? (as you can
probably tell, I do very little with unbeamed tuplets...)
Finale have bracket as default on tuplets, but the 'rule' is the
opposite and very clear, the bracket is used to eliminate doubt of which
notes belong to the tuplet definition, and not as a general practice. So
beamed tuplet should have no bracket at all. It is more elegant to use
the slur to indicate the tuplet than to use both slur, tuplet and
bracket, that would be like wearing both belt and braces :-) .
To the second question, yes bracket is allowed to go into the staff
lines if needed, they can also be used cross staff, you will find it in
many nicely engraved score from houses like Heugel & Cie and Boosey &
Hawkes, among others, so no problem there.
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