On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Mark Polesky <[email protected]>wrote:
> Peter Buhr wrote:
> > I want to specify a duration (tie length) for
> > \laissezVibrer as in:
> >
> > a4\laissezVibrer{1}
> >
> > meaning put a tie of duration whole-note on the 1/4 note
> > "a". Knowing how long to let a note ring seems essential
> > to describe the music for a player.
>
> Why not just write a whole note?
>
> Okay, I know there are some cases where it's not that
> simple, but IIUC the entire point of the l.v. notation is to
> tell the player *not* to stop the tone (as on the
> harp)---either it will die out on its own or the string (or
> whatever) will be struck again soon enough. If you want the
> the note to ring for the length of a whole note, then you
> should probably just write a whole note.
>
> For bowed stringed instruments, the initial note is notated with a
"regular" note, and laissez vibrer means "to allow the string to continue to
vibrate", but without bowing. In my limited experience, the laissez vibrer
period has no clearly defined length or termination.
Ralph
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Ralph Palmer
Montague City, MA
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