On Thursday 25 March 2004 14.29, Marco Gusy wrote: > Alle 23:37, mercoled� 24 marzo 2004, Erik Sandberg ha scritto: > > This might be true for the music you are typesetting, but there is other > > music which uses different rules. Much of the vocal music I have typeset > > does not use beaming to indicate melisma, simply because it's easier to > > read beamed notes. > > Try to check it in professional scores.
Depends on what you mean by professional. I have been singing in a choir for a while, and it is quite common with good-looking printed notes which has multiple syllables under one beam. I would suppose that this notation practise is more common in popular/traditional songs. I can beleive that you are right when it comes to scores typeset by Baerenreiter, Henle etc. But otoh I don't think those companies ever would typeset a Beatles song, so you can not look at Henle scores to decide the common practise of typesetting a score of Beatles music. Now, one could argue that lilypond's aim is to produce beautiful sheet music, where "beautiful" is quite much defined by the style of Henle; so "beautiful" beaming would be "beaming similar to Henle's beaming". But the beautifulness considerations that are being made, are rather related to things such as spacing and fonts, [auto]beaming is more a question of syntax. Erik _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
