On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:18 pm, Christian Mondrup wrote: > David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 06:47 am, Christian Mondrup wrote: > > > >> To my best knowledge all notes belonging to a chord with a dotted > >> note value must be dotted. My favourite music notation reference, > >> Gardner Read, Music Notation confirms that along with detailed > >> rules on where to place dots in case of small chord intervals. The > >> notation of the dotted quarter-note in your example line 1 bar 1 > >> does not adhere to the noation standard described by Gardner Read. > > > > Look out! My copy is old enough to be wrong in this regard. That is > > why Gardner Read is very low on my list. If you have a recent > > revised copy it should be ok. > > > > If there are 2+ voices on one staff, line notes on a downward stem > > should have the dots in the spaces below. daveA > > Quoting Gardner Read, Music Notation, 2nd ed, Boston 1969: > > The dot ... is always placed in the center of a _space_, regardless of > whether the note is on a line or in a space. ... The general rule > governing dotted notes placed on lines is that the dot is placed in the > _space above_ rather than below ... An important exception to to this > rule occurs when the interval of a second places one note-head on a line > and one in a space. If the lower of the two notes is on a line, its > dot(s) must go in the space _beneath_ it, rather than above ... The > inflexible rule is: Never put two independent augmentation dots in the > same staff space > > ... In addition, when two dotted notes that are somewhat adjacenton the > staff require separate stems, the lower note being on a line, its dot(s) > must also be placed in the space below. > > However, M-Tx/PMX/musixtex does not adhere to the latter rule!
Just making sure. The latter rule was not in the first edition. You have a newer one. That book was used at university. I did not find out about the rule until I had contact with some professional music typesetters. Dr. Read's publication was, to say the least, premature. Where there is a hopeless cluster of notes, such that there are not enough spaces, there is no ambiguity in having dots overprint as long as the note heads involved are on the same stem. It may not be pretty enough for many, but different time values are not allowed on the same stem, so if one is dotted, the others must be also, will he nill he. Different time values are allowed on the same note head of course, but then there are two stems. daveA -- The "information economy" is a fantasy. Information about what? The "global economy" is a myth. All economics is local. "Stateless terrorism" is a lie, to protect those who finance it. D. Raleigh Arnold dra@ (http://www.) openguitar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
