On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:42 +0000, Philip Potter wrote: > 2009/12/11 Owain Sutton <m...@owainsutton.co.uk>: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:20 +0000, Philip Potter wrote: > >> 2009/12/11 Jay Anderson <horndud...@gmail.com>: > >> > I've done triple-stops like this in the past: > >> > << c4 <g' e'>2.\fermata >> > >> > > >> > I'd prefer to do the triple-stop something more like this to avoid > >> > warnings: > >> > <\tweak #'duration-log #2 \tweak #'dot-count #0 c g' e'>2.\fermata | > >> > > >> > Unfortunately I can't make the dot disappear easily (the dot-count > >> > thing I was trying doesn't work). I could probably write a function to > >> > remove the dot for this case (which might not be a bad idea: > >> > \tripleStop <c g' e'>2.\fermata), but if there's a simple tweak to get > >> > rid of the dot I'd be interested to know. Does this fall under the > >> > recent \tweak nested properties changes? Thanks. > >> > >> Is this notation something you've seen other music producers use? It > >> sounds like you want a chord with a crotchet at the bottom and two > >> fermata'd minims at the top; and you want to ignore the warning about > >> the lower crotchet not being the same length as the minims. I'm not > >> convinced that this is the best way to do what you want, but I'm not a > >> string player so I'm not familiar with string music conventions. > > > > > > This kind of thing is perfectly normal notation, as an explicit > > instruction to arpeggiate a chord in a certain way - off-hand, examples > > I can think of are in the last movement of Tchaik 5, and various points > > in the Stravinsky violin concerto. > > Do you have a graphical example? I still can't picture it, and it > would help greatly to understand exactly what is wanted. > > Phil >
I realise now I've checked that the Tchaikovsky does have rests in the lower 'voice'. The Stravinsky doesn't, however, - but you can just about make it out here, at figure 2: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/look_inside/5867960/image/262798 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user