Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Shane Brandes
That is an interesting notion. I will have to dig my copy out tomorrow and examine it, not remembering an such distinction at the moment. Shane On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Michael Rivers wrote: > I believe it was Couperin who distinguished between ties and slurs in his > manuscripts by using

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Michael Rivers
I believe it was Couperin who distinguished between ties and slurs in his manuscripts by using slightly different shapes for each. I don't have my copy of L'art de toucher le clavecin nearby, but I believe the slurs had more squared-off ends and ties had more rounded ends. Too bad Couperin's system

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 09/01/2013 04:16 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Rutger Hofman writes: (sorry for not including the conversation, but this from my Android phone.) OK, a slur it must be. But, although the notation a8( a8) may be uncommon nowadays, it is quite common in baroque music. Most recently, I met it in BW

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Carl Peterson
On Sep 1, 2013 6:01 AM, "Peter Bjuhr" wrote: > > As David points out the original example is uncommon both regarding ties and slurs. I like to add another example which represent a more common use of ties. > > As you can see from the ly-file I first use a tie, then a slur, then a double dot. > > I

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Rutger Hofman writes: > (sorry for not including the conversation, but this from my Android phone.) > OK, a slur it must be. > > But, although the notation a8( a8) may be uncommon nowadays, it is > quite common in baroque music. Most recently, I met it in BWV 146 mvt > 2, all over the place. It a

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Rutger Hofman
(sorry for not including the conversation, but this from my Android phone.) OK, a slur it must be. But, although the notation a8( a8) may be uncommon nowadays, it is quite common in baroque music. Most recently, I met it in BWV 146 mvt 2, all over the place. It also occurs elsewhere with 3 or 4

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Peter Bjuhr" To: Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo As David points out the original example is uncommon both regarding ties and slurs. I like to add another example which represent a more common u

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Peter Bjuhr
As David points out the original example is uncommon both regarding ties and slurs. I like to add another example which represent a more common use of ties. As you can see from the ly-file I first use a tie, then a slur, then a double dot. I think that you could get away with the second as a

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Please keep replies on the list. Rutger Hofman writes: > On 09/01/2013 10:21 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Given the nature of ties, ties in parallel with beams are not very >> frequent. >> >> The example you give does not seem like something where one would >> ordinarily employ ties. >> > > Ar

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.09.2013 10:12, schrieb Rutger Hofman: Good morning list, ties in \voiceTwo etc are attached to the notehead. Slurs are attached to the end of the stem. See attached example. I would prefer the ties to behave like the slurs, i.e. attached to the end of the stem. How can I achieve that?

Re: Tie placement in voiceTwo

2013-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Rutger Hofman writes: > Good morning list, > > ties in \voiceTwo etc are attached to the notehead. Slurs are attached > to the end of the stem. See attached example. > > I would prefer the ties to behave like the slurs, i.e. attached to the > end of the stem. How can I achieve that? > > BTW, I wo