David Wright wrote > That's not true for all appoggiaturas of that era, is it?
Well, with old music it's always tricky to find rules for these type of things, and to cater our MIDI output around it will lead to madness IMO. But I'd say it's quite safe to assume the meaning of contemporary appoggiaturas (this problem is similar to the accacciaturaL the modern is to be played as short as possible on the beat, but in old music this will vary wildly). > [they] suspends the principal note by taking away the time-value of the > appoggiatura prefixed to it From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_%28music%29#Appoggiatura For some of the old rules, see pp. 43--46 from https://books.google.cz/books?id=TMdf1SioFk4C&pg=PA44&dq=appoggiatura&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=appoggiatura&f=false -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/grace-notes-MIDI-playback-tp184215p184435.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
