On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 21:08:30 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > >> David Kastrup wrote > >> > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would > >> > swallow all of the following notelength or more? And otherwise scale > >> > down repeatedly by a factor of 2 until it doesn't? > >> > >> That sounds like an excellent approach as appogiaturas should be played > >> with > >> their nominal lengths. For instance, see the first bar of the original > >> notation of Mozart's Alla Turca rondo: > >> > >> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n184220/mozart_allaturca.png> > >> > >> It should be interpreted as: > >> > >> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n184220/RondoAllaTurcaMozart.png> > >> > > > > That's not true for all appoggiaturas of that era, is it? I was > > taught that c8 b4. would be performed as c4 b8 or even c4 b8-. which > > would sound like c4 b16 r16 perhaps. > > > > Looking in learned texts, I've just come across one where > > c8 b2 r2 is to be performed c2 b2 so that rest is gone. > > > > (c8 is an appoggiatura in all cases above.) > > Man, that's just sick.
Sorry, I don't understand. > Are there rules given in your learned texts about what to pick when? Any "rules" (conventions might be a better word) of any particular period (and locality) have to be modified by context, taste etc. So I suspect you know the answer is no. It also depends on who you read and who you talk to/take the advice of. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user