Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> writes: >>> The following is one excerpt from the Sitt book, 20 studies in >>> Double Stops. >>> >>> >>> Why in the first three measures the G, D and A are written as >>> g4~4~4~4 d4~4~4~4 a4~4~4~4 instead of g1 d1 a1? Any idea? >> >> That’s clearly due to the pedagogical purpose; since the etudes are >> about Double Stops, the author wanted to make more immediately >> obvious what exact double stop is played at the moment. (Which I >> feel would make more sense if neither note was on an open string, >> but I guess that also appears later in the work.) > One might add that string players sometimes tend to not precisely > adhere to the written note length in polyphonic double stops: Think of > the instances where Bach writes a longer note combined in polyphony > with shorter notes which are _not_ legato. > Playing non-legato and repeating the long note over and over again > would be silly.
So? You detach the bow from the string with the non-legato note and keep it on the string with the long note. Then you make bow contact with the non-legato string again for its next note, never stopping the sounding of the long note. It's sort of a rocking bow action while continually playing the long note. Been there, done that. Indeed, in Bach partitas. Takes a bit of practice in order not to let the long note wobble too much but very well worth it. Not relevant for the original question: I agree that the notation is pedagogical (and focused on the execution) rather than musical there. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user