> Here's an proposal: How about rolling > when it's appropriate and not rolling when it's not?
Martyn alluded to that point already when he said that rolling may take away from the power of musical rhetoric. That applies e.g. to the matter of séparé in French baroque lute music. You can read everywhere that séparé means arpeggiating or rolling. Then, Perrine weighed in with his version of what séparé might imply (you may guess that I'm not convinced as regards music by lutenists who had passed some 50 years earlier). Close study of the respective places will reveal what is appropriate and what is not. My current take on séparé more often than not is a short note on the beat, followed by a dotted note (not the other way round). Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
