Johannes Gebauer wrote:
The composer wants a tie from A sharp to B flat (and it sort of makes sense). How would you place the tie, horizontal or (using a slur) not horizontal.
Ted Ross helpfully tells me "in the case of the enharmonic change of the notation, a tie may or may not be horizontal". Very helpful indeed.
Johannes
To wh. David Bailey, inter alia:
I would make it a horizontal tie, since any slope in a curved line signals to the musician that the pitch will be following that slant (up or down). Since the actual pitch won't change (other than intonation issues to sound properly with the new chord) the curved line should be horizontal to indicate that.
In my opinion.
Gardner Read (in Music Notation A Manual of Modern Practice, p.111) speaks only of a tie and doesn't mention the use of a slur at all.
A distinction must be drawn betw. what Finale does, and what the result actually is, musically. Whether you use Finale's tie algorithm or its slur algorithm, the result on the page will be a tie. The only reason for the distinction is that slanted ties in Finale are tough to do, and awkward looking when done.
That said, I would like to strongly advocate in favor of a slanted tie (i.e., a Finale slur). If you do use a tie, it is essential that you then go and adjust the vertical position of the far endpoint so that it lies in the correct place relative to the notehead; this is especially vital if the second note lies higher on the staff than the starting note (A# --> Bb, for example). Just putting in a tie and leaving it in its default appearance would IMO give an unprofessional-looking result. You'd never see this in hand-engraving!
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