Hi David,

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM, David Sumbler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> But both of these are "work-arounds" for something which is actually
> fairly normal musical notation.  They are work-arounds because one
> method implies that a note is not really the length that it appears to
> be, and the other method implies that the dynamics actually belong to
> another, silent voice.  Neither of these is true in reality.
>

Actually, I think I was a little imprecise talking about attaching the
dynamics to a new voice here.  I created SimultaneousMusic, rather than
another Voice context.  Note that this is done commonly enough by users
parameterizing their input: one variable is used to store the notes, and
another to store the dynamics.

(This is not to say that there isn't some hackery at work here :) )



> Ideally one shouldn't have to use trial and error, varying the length of
> the second invisible rest, to get an acceptable appearance.  We know
> exactly where the final dynamic should go: it should be immediately
> before the bar-line.
>

Yes, but what of more complex examples, where a composer indicates a number
of inflections on a single note?  There are a number of examples of that
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uav-OYUJ7BQ (including a simple one
at the very beginning).  How else could you notate these cases without the
simultaneous music approach?

Best,
David
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