----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: [TeX-music] Questions about typesetting keyboard parts
> Recently while browsing the harpsichord list I came across a link to a > complete downloadable facsimile of Duphly's harpsichord works: > http://jacques.duphly.free.fr/accueil.html . Most of this is for solo > harpsichord and has been published in an outrageously priced modern edition > by Heugel. But in volume 3 there are some pieces that add a violin as a sort > of accompaniment. They don't seem to be in the Heugel volume, and even if > they were I would still be motivated to make a PCH Publishing edition just > to make them available at a more reasonable price. > > Anyhow, in working on La Madin several interesting issues came up related to > which notes of the keyboard part go in which staves. I would like to have a > rule that says "LH notes always in the lower staff, RH always in the upper." > But I know this won't work all the time. So is this even a good starting > point? If so, what are the exceptions? > > The first example involves crossed-hands. Here's an extract from the > facsimile and of my version: > http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/duphly/duphlyex.gif As a pianist, I definitely prefer the version of the facsimile, i.e. the version *without* incessant key changes. I made this change from the source edition to my edition of Schulhoff's Valse Brillante: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/schulhoff/ > [...] > The second example involves an arpeggio: > http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/duphly/lamadinex2.gif > Here, I also chose to follow the rule. Moreover, in keeping with another > rule I made up, I changed clefs to avoid using a third ledger line for the > a. On the other hand, one could argue that Duphly's layout is more pleasing > to the eye and is relatively unambiguous due to the stem directions and just > the mechanics of playing it. IMO Duphly's first bar of this example is more convenient, but nowadays, one would be less reluctant to use ledger lines, and one would typeset the left hand of the entire second half of the second bar on either staff. Beams across staves would be used only to avoid ledger lines that extend more than a sixth or a seventh above/below the staff. > Comments? I hope this helps for your future editions. {slightly off topic:} This Duphly site raises an interesting copyright issue, about which I have always been curious: Some facsimile publishers put a copyright notice on their facsimiles. In other words, you may not re-photocopy what they have photocopied. (I assume a facsimile is nothing but a well bound, hight quality photocopy). I have seen such notices on Minkoff's facsimiles, and I guess Fuzeau has such notices too (Minkoff is still more expensive than Fuzeau). Any comments ? May be we should hurry to download the Duphly stuff before this Duphly site is forced to close :-) Jean-Pierre Coulon E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur Département FRESNEL, groupe ILGA BP 4229 06304 NICE Cedex 4 Tel (33) {0}4 92 00 31 58 Fax (33) {0}4 92 00 31 38 _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
