On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:05:58 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As a collector of sheet music, I can say that this way linking two sets >of double beams with a single beam is a 19th century engraving >habit. You'd better write two *independent* sets of *three* >semiquavers, unless you want to mimic old editions. > I don't know about the wider traditions of music engraving in general, but this sort of beaming occurs quite extensively in classical guitar muic written in the last decade or so. And the work I'm currently typesetting (for the composer himself, whose beaming practice in the manuscript I'm reproducing) is a classical guitar composition written in July 2000. >BTW, is the British musical terminology more welcome than the >US one, in this list ? IMHO US terminology has the advantage >of beeing a "clone" of the German one. > I'm not aware that any preference has ever been stated on the list; as far as I can tell, everyone uses whichever terminology they're most familiar with. For my part, I use the British system because that's what I grew up using. I can't get my mind round all those fractions in the American system even though the German terms are no problem for me. Just a quirk in the way my mind works, I suppose... :) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
