Am 2009-09-25 um 16:37 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 16:21:01 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
Hi,
my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than
a quarter)
have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead
of slurs.
That is *not* modern practice... I would *strongly* recommend that
you try to convince your editor to use modern practice (i.e., beaming
to the beat, slurring for melismas), which is the current standard,
not least of all because it's significantly easier for singers to
read.
Actually, here in Europe, that is traditional notation and the
standard for
any non-modern pieces! E.g. take any Bärenreiter, Breitkopf, Carus,
etc.
edition and you'll see that all of them use beaming for melismas in
the vocal
voices!
So, for modern music (musical, pop, etc.), slurs might be the
standard, but if
you are used to classical music, the "new" notation is quite
confusing and the
singers will have problems when sight-reading.
Ok, so he's right (and he complains a lot about those American
defaults of all music typesetters), but I find it illogical
nevertheless.
I'm very glad, Thomas Morgan provided me with a patch to typeset minor
chords as lowercase - some other European or at least German default
that LilyPond still doesn't support.
Now my (and his) last wish that I don't know to fulfill is -is and -es
chords (see my other mail).
Thank you all!
Greetlings from Lake Constance
---
fiëé visuëlle
Henning Hraban Ramm
http://www.fiee.net
http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/
https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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