On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:26 +0200, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Terrence Enger wrote: > > > For the terminally curious, I attach an image of the part of the > > manuscript which led me into this situation. > > I cannot answer, but may I express a personal opinion?
Of course. > > You have 2 slurs and 2 ties. For the musician who reads the piece it is > rather > difficult to rapidly play each one correctly. > > Therefore I think you should notate the ties only. Due to the rather legato > character of this piece the average musican <aside> My spell checker objects, but that's how Deral Johnson <http://thewholenote.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4837:deral-johnson&catid=102:wholenote-blog&Itemid=222> used to say it, so I like it. Especially when he was accusing us of being mechanical or inattentive: "Come on, you musicans!" I remember being in a conversation with him in a corridor. An undergraduate--oh-so-young, oh-so-sweet, oh-so-timid--came up and asked if she could bother him. His response, in high dudgeon, was "Absolutely not." But then, with the utmost graciousness, he added "But I would be *delighted* were you to interrupt." </aside> > will certainly guess that the > "changing" notes must be played legato. Just for reference, the manuscript in question is <http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b1/IMSLP28202-PMLP61902-Grieg_Andante_con_moto_EG_116.pdf>. I have been trying quite hard to follow the manuscript closely. I do not know of any printed version of this music; google keeps leading me back to the manuscript image from which I am working. (There is, however, a commercial recording. Now if my latest customer will just get around to paying that last big invoice ... <grin />) I have divided purposes here (even beyond learning the typesetting). I think I would like to try playing the piece. (I have roped in a cellist, looking for a violinist, am somewhat worried that our pianist (yikes, that's me!) may not be up to the job.) Meanwhile, I hope to have something worth contributing back to imslp.org. For this last purpose, I think faithfulness to the original trumps practicality. An important upcoming decision is the treatment of Grieg's pencilled-in revisions. Especially in the last three measures, they are quite thick upon the page. If I can figure out how to do an "ossia" in pmx, then I can punt the decision to the reader by entering the music both ways. So, I guess I am saying that I shall see it as an accomplishment if I can reach the point where practicality is relevant. It is by no means clear that I shall persist that far. Sigh. ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
