On 01 Dec 2003, at 01:59 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 07:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Just wondering if there was any consensus about how to resolve collisions between tuplet brackets and slurs [...]
Do slurs always go outside triplet brackets? (Even if that means displacing the slur ends a *long* way from the noteheads?) Can slurs go inside triplet brackets when the bracket is above the staff and the slur is (mostly) inside the staff? Do you skirt the issue by flipping the tuplet bracket to the non-slur side? (Not an acceptable solution in my case, but I'd be curious if this is normal.)
I consider both of the latter viable options.
What if you have a long slurred passage with bracketed triplets that begins low and moves high? Would you mix and match the brackets, with the first few brackets outside the slur (above the staff, with a slur that begins inside staff), then at some appropriate point switch to triplets inside the slur (when the passage starts getting high)? Or is it better to be consistent -- either always inside the slurs, or always outside the slurs?
[N.B. In jazz, bracketed triplets are always supposed to go above the staff, so I'm kind of constrained there. It would be convenient to put all the triplet brackets below the staff and all the slurs above, but jazz players aren't used to seeing triplet brackets below the staff.]
The best-looking solution to my eye is to always put the triplet brackets inside the overslurs. That leads to some situations where the slur begins or ends *way* above the notes, but so far that seems like the least bad option, at least to me.
- Darcy
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