> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:42:57 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Johan Tufvesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [...] So my question is: Is it possible (yes of
> course everything is possible in MusiXTeX...) to have something like this
> on the two violin staffs: (N=natural, #=sharp)
>
> #
> --#-----------
>
> --------------
> #
> --------------
>
> G----N---------
> #
> --------------
>
> I know that Werner Icking has used scordatura in Suite V in Bach's cello
> suites, but that particular mistuning didn't require any modifications
> like this.
mistuning, ahem :-) It's great fun to play the cello suite V on a re-tuned
instrument.
The trick you are looking for has been used in my edition of Bach's Sonatas
and Partitas for Violon solo. E.g. in the 3rd Partita in E-major which has
four sharps. But Bach wrote it with six sharps by doubling those sharps which
can be set twice within the staff. MusiXTeX supplies \everystaff for such
tricks:
\def\everystaff{\znotes\off{0.2\Internote}\roff{\bigna f}%
\off{4.0\Internote}\roff{\bigna g}\off{-4.2\Internote}\en}
It's "old" code. I see it from mis-using "\Internote" as horizontal dimension
and \off instead of roffset. The coding is based upon \relativeaccid.
Nowadays I would use something like:
\relativeaccid
\generalsignature4
\def\everystaff{\znotes\roffset{1.08}{\bigna f}\roffset{2.75}{\bigna g}\en}
\startextract\Notes\qa{cccc}\en\endextract\bye\relativeaccid\generalsignature4
\def\everystaff{\znotes\roffset{1.08}{\bigna f}\roffset{2.75}{\bigna g}\en}
\startextract\Notes\qa{eg'be}\en\endextract
\generalsignature3
\def\everystaff{\znotes\roffset{1.08}{\bigna f}\roffset{2.75}{\bigfl g}\en}
\startextract\Notes\qa{ace'a}\en\endextract\bye
without knowing how to find a more logical solution than "1.08" and "2.75"
which have been found by trial and error. The 2nd example could be the solution
for your problem.
For your case you should know, that the accidentals added by \everystaff
are not recognised by \relativeaccid.
If I remember right one of the PMX-sources on my music server works with this
trick, too. But I forgot whom I told that trick.
> (For the curious this particular piece is tuned C-G-C-F.
> Poor violin :-)
Maybe the strings have to be exchanged like for one of Biber's "Rosenkranz Sonaten".
No G-string. D-string in place of G-string tuned to C; A-string in place of D-string
tuned to G; another A-string tuned to C; E-string tuned to F.
I've been said that pure gut strings as used in former times can be re-tuned
easier than modern strings which are a compromise in volume and durability esp.
for the A-string.
-- Werner
