>-- Original Message -- >Subject: half-dot >From: David Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:09:12 +0000 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Just posting this as general interest. > >Next week we (Iceland Symphony) will be playing Kalevi Aho's flute >concerto. I noticed an odd notation. In a 5/4 measure there was a >whole note immediately followed by a small x (looks more like a >multiplication symbol) and no other notes in the measure. I wondered >what it was. I thought perhaps it was a 'half-dot'. Then I saw a 5/8 >measure with a half-note immediately followed by the same little x. >Obviously it's a 'half-dot.' I've never seen nor heard of such a thing. Hi, just few weeks ago, I saw this notation in the music of Veli-Matti Puumala, another finnish composer (like Aho). I don't think it's so popular to become a standard, and also the piece in which I saw the symbol is handwritten.. Personally I never used this notation and I've asked to some composers and nobody use it.
>I think this music was prepared with either Sibelius or Finale but I'm >not sure which (one clue; when slurs/ties pass through time signatures >they 'white out' as they cross them). So, in my experience, is not Sibelius for sure. I don't remember Finale so well but I don't think it has this feature. > I used to use Finale but I never >encountered this sign before. > >Just thought I'd toss this out there. If it is, or is becoming, a >standard notation perhaps LilyPond ought to be able to do it, too. > >-David > > > >_______________________________________________ >lilypond-user mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Libero Mureddu ===================== Libero Mureddu Vanha Viertotie, 21 as. 429 00350 Helsinki Finlandia Tel. 041-7718406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================== _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
