"Colin Broom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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'm not sure if I've understood your situation precisely, but the only
edition I know of that takes a slur from the end or to the beginning of
a tie is the Barenreiter NMA, presumably because that's what Mozart did.
I don't care for it, but it's a precedent of some stature.
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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