On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:50AM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [chords and relative]
> > The three d are 16th, set in an absolute pitch of d''16.
> > (it doesn't matter if the voice contexts are commented out or not).
> > This has often confused me a lot, but somehow I never got to
> > report this. IMO, they should get the relative pitch *and* the
> > duration of the last note in the first sequence of the chord, thus d''2
> > d'16 might be ok (though I'd vote no), but mixing the duration
> > and the relative pitch from the two components of the chord is
> > obviously wrong.
>
>
> The problem is , what do you do with
>
> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g>
>
> in your approach you have to add comma's to the c-s.
>
> Dear mailinglist, what do you think?
>
> An additional problem is that changing this breaks almost all mudela sources.
Whew, this gets more and more confusing... did someone intend mudela to
be usable by the masses? ;-)
As I don't understand your objection (adding commas to the c-s), maybe I
didn't formulate what I was trying to say and so you didn't understand
me. I'll try again:
In relative mode, if I say
<{c4 f b} {c8 b a g f} {c c''}> <d f>
I expect to obtain (absolutely)
<{c'4 f'4 b'4} {c''8 b'8 a'8 g'8 f'8} {c'8 c'''8}> <d''4 f''4>
This is done fine by lily, except that the second chord (the d-s) are
interpreted as <d''8 f''8>. Their octave is taken (correctly as I deem)
from the last note in the first sequence of the previous chord, i.e.
the b just before the }. But their duration is not taken from there:
instead (I think) it is taken from the last note of the last
sequence in the previous chord, i.e. the c''.
I was objecting to this discrepancy and suggesting that the duration
of the d-s were taken from the same note as the pitch, thus
d'''8 or (greatly preferred:) d''4 .
This doesn't affect <c e g> <c e g> at all, because the first note in the
second chord is relative to the last note in the first sequence of the
previous, first chord. As this sequence consists of a single note c,
everything is fine.
Greetings, Dirk.
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