Mark, No offense to Herr Bach or his playfulness - as an organist, I deeply appreciate his genius - and I never thought my innocent question would spark such dialog.
>From an engineering standpoint, I would expect the "default" settings of an >application to adequately address the "majority" of cases, but allow explicit >manipulation to allow the user to do whatever they need to do. I know my >student would agree, especially since he was the one who was confused in the >first place. I suspect the Maestro would also agree, especially since "playfulness" often involves looking for opportunities to break the rules. Karen > On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simon, > > May I be so bold as to inquire, how does the beaming "clearly indicate" > nothing more than distribution of notes between hands? > I also present the final measure of the Gigue of the French Suite VI in > which all of the notes are ascribed to the right hand yet the structure is > three groups of four against two groups of three. > To dismiss the possibility of a hemiola might deny some of Bach's > playfulness. > > Regards, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 1:47 PM > To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]>; 'Martin Neubauer' > <[email protected]>; 'Lilypond-User Mailing List' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly? > >> On 07.04.2016 04:21, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: >> >> Martin, >> >> Hemiola? >> >> Cf. WTC I 3 Prelude, measures 97 - 104. >> > > The Neue Bach-Ausgabe has the semiquavers beamed three and three only in m. > 97 & 98, and this clearly indicates primarily the distribution to the > hands: first three notes sinistra, next three destra. A hemiola is a totally > different thing, where e.g. in 3/8 time two measures are somewhat stressed > like one 3/4 measure. There are different interpretations of the phenomenon, > which mainly occurs at cadenzas. > > Best, Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
