Jost- If this were me, I would investigate performance practices at the time and place this work was a) written and b) published (maybe even down to the particular composer). If you can look at the provenance of that publisher's source, and know the editor's reputation, those will help, too.
Hope this helps. -David. --- Jost Schenck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to LilyPond and music typesetting and > currently doing my first > larger work. While porting my files to version 2.0.0 I > noticed that LilyPond > now has \appoggiatura and \acciaccatura keywords, which > makes things much > easier (not having to set stroke-style every time etc.). > These keywords > always add a slur. > > Now, in a rather old music edition I am currently > transcribing, both > appoggiaturas and acciaccaturas are sometimes slurred > sometimes not. I know > that I can still create an unslurred grace with the > \grace keynote -- but I > wonder where is the difference and if maybe the editor of > my edition just > didn't really care. As to me it seems hard to distinguish > slurred and > unslurred graces (well, harder than slurred normal notes) > and as slurred > appoggiaturas/acciaccaturas are default now in LilyPond I > wonder whether this > is rather a change in notation style over the centuries > than a real musical > difference. Can somebody enlighten me on this? Can I just > use slurred graces > or should I stick to the difference my edition makes? > > Thanks a lot, > -Jost. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
