On 16.03.2006 Colin Broom wrote:
I'm working on a piece at the moment that happens to have some long notes tied over several bars. Now I know that conventional wisdom says that if one note is slurred to the next, the slur should extend from the very first note over/under all of the ties to the very last note, so, for example, if, in 4/4, I have a note three whole notes long which then slurs to another note the same length, the slur should extend across all 6 notes.
I don't know what kind of music you are editing. It is common in critical editions of 18th and early 19th century music to keep the custom of the period, which is slurs begin only on the last of the tied notes, and end on the first. You will see this practice in NBA, NMA, Haydn complete edition, Beethoven complete edition, and most recent publications of similar music. Personally I prefer this. The benefit is that very long slurs happen less often.
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