Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2007 04:34 schrieb Don Simons: > Thanks VERY much for posting these files. It's interesting on several > levels. > > Regarding PMX: I used the wonderful old program MidiNotate to analyze the > MIDI file. When it creates its version of the score from the MIDI, there is > no visual offset between voices. And at normal speed I could not hear any > offset. But this is harpsichord music, which I'm so used to hearing played > staggered that I might not have noticed anyhow. However when I slow it way > down, to 1/10 normal speed, I can very clearly hear the offset. I guess the > amount of offset is less than the granularity of MidiNotate's notational > sensibilities. > > Regarding the music itself (which interests me greatly because I'm a > harpsichordist): I've played some pretty obscure stuff (Weckmann, LeRoux, > Galuppi, Storace [which I've also published]...) but never tackled any > Royer. I'm not a bad player, but the technical requirements of his stuff > are often beyond me. I can't figure out why he made it so incredibly hard > to play, and when I do hear it played properly, I can't decide whether I > should be more impressed with the music or with the technique required to > play it. In this particular piece, one puzzlement is with the 128th > notes...did he really think anyone could play this at a sensible tempo and > make the distinction between them and the preceeding 64ths? I also wonder > about how to divide between the hands the notes in bars 14-15, 34, and > 36-37. There are certainly no hints in the way you've typeset it. Are there > any hints in your source? Are the beam directions in the source the same as > in the PMX? Are the notes all in the same staff, as they are in the PMX? > The passages could both clearly be done straightforwardly with two hands, > but I don't see anything that tells that to the performer. In my Storace, I > adhered religiously to the disposition between staves in the facsimile, > which in that case obviously dictated the disposition between hands. >
Hi Don, I will answer on your questions but I think that the other people of this list may not be interested in the specials of Royer's Allemande. Therefore I will turn over to your private address. Hermann > As to your question about slur directions on graces, I'm afraid there > simply aren't any options (yet) for adjusting their positions. (I did a > double take in bars 31-32 until I realized that the upper slur really > applies to the lower notes and vice versa.) Your best bet for now is to > enter the slurs with inline TeX. You can both start and stop the slur on > the main note by using \loffset for the start. Let me know if you want an > example. > > --Don Simons > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hermann > > Hinsch > > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:34 AM > > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > > Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] 128th notes within PMX > > > > Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 16:23 schrieb Don Simons: > > > Hermann, could you send me the score and or the MIDI? I'm > > > > curious to know > > > > > whether the mismatch is audible. > > > > > > Just for the record, I misstated the length of the guarter in > > > > MIDI tics in > > > > > PMX...it's 240, not 120. But I think everything else I said is > > > > accurate. I > > > > > did a few more tests since then, and reminded myself that the special > > > corrections I had programmed apply only to half-note and quarter-note > > > septuplets, but not eighth-note septuplets or any 9-tuplets (unless the > > > 9-tuplets are on dotted notes, e.g., cd05x9 ... ). > > > > > > I wonder if Score/Finale/Sibelius have any of these same issues. > > > > > > --Don Simons > > > > Don, you may find my score enclosed together with the MIDI-file. > > > > May I ask an additional question: Using grace notes would be possible to > > define the direction of the slur independent of the direction of > > the stem? As > > you may see in my score that rather often grace notes are placed > > too narrow > > together. In this case I suppressed the slur for clarity. > > > > Hermann > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music -- Dr. Hermann Hinsch Quinckestraße 44 69120 Heidelberg Tel.: 06221-436298 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
