On 27 Jan 2010 at 8:57, Harold Owen wrote:
> Dennis writes:
>
> >Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars (left
> >hand), of the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). Assuming the upper
> >voice has all its stems upwards, the lower voice all stems
> >downwards, what is the ru
Dennis writes:
Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars (left
hand), of the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). Assuming the upper
voice has all its stems upwards, the lower voice all stems
downwards, what is the rule for the middle part?
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dc wrote:
Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars (left
hand), of the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). Assuming the upper
voice has all its stems upwards, the lower voice all stems downwards,
what is the rule for the middle part?
What you coud do, is notate the three v
I frequently run into this situation in guitar music. I have never found a
rule for the stem direction of the middle stems and so always point the
stems to best minimize confusion caused by wrongly reading the notes of two
voices with stems in the same direction as one voice (and not adding up
corr
There is no rule as far as I know, but I would have thought
legibility would be improved by having the stems in the middle voice
down, so as not to have to avoid a collision with the rest on beat 2.
In the last measure though, the stem should be up, otherwise there
would be a collision with
If you must have three distinct voices, using Goldberg as an example, Im not
aware of a rule governing the stem of the third note. My point was that you
coould have a G on beat one, a G-B on beat 2, and a G-B-D on beat 3, with Gs
and Bs tied. If a pianist played the Goldberg acc to the example o
If you're not otherwise bound by some editorial edict you could use tied
quarter notes across the three beats.
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On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:44 AM, dc wrote:
Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars (left hand), of
the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). Assum
