dc wrote:
Where should I place the left hand C on the first beat? Before (meaning
the natural sign has to be moved) or after the beat (meaning the stem
will cut through the beam)?
www.collins.lautre.net/files/spacing3.jpg
www.collins.lautre.net/files/spacing4.jpg
Or some other way?
I'd opt for "some other way"placing the half note to the right of the
the eighth, but a bit closer to the beat axis, with the stem flipped so
that it doesn't cut the beam. This is a reasonably commonplace means of
solving exactly this issue in music published in XIXth and early XXth
century choral music keyboard accompaniments, and an example of this can
be seen in the piano chapter of Kurt Stone's /Music Notation in the
Twentieth Century/, though in the example, the stems for the eighth
notes happen to go up, and the longer note duration (a quarter in that
case) happens to go down.
ns
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