On 2016-11-02 14:56, Noeck wrote:
Am 02.11.2016 um 14:48 schrieb David Kastrup:
>This particular one is... horrific.
In most of the cases the author should just have used chords instead of
voices.
My guess that the intention was to stay as close to Bach's manuscripts
as possible.
I have used similar tricks to imitate the composers layout for "chords"
with separate stems per note, when typesetting other baroque music. The
stem order can indeed provide hints on how the composers wanted the
chords to be broken, which is lost if you use standard modern
typesetting practice chords. A famous example of a modern edition trying
to imitate the original manuscript in this respect is late Werner
Icking's typesetting of Bach's Violin Sonatas and Partitas (though done
using MusiXTeX, not LilyPond), see
http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Violin_Sonatas_and_Partitas,_BWV_1001-1006_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian),
bottom of the page.
I clearly support the proposal to change of the voice order to a more
logical top to bottom structure, even though it would break some of my
LilyPond code.
/Mats
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