On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Christof Biebricher wrote: > Both solutions leave out the possibility of using phrasing slurs in > vocal music, but it is rarely used and in my opinion contradictory, > because phrasing should be dictated by the text. Legato is -- and > should be -- indicated in vocal music explicitly and not by slurs to > avoid misinterpretations.
Nevertheless this gives often rise to confusion, since less informed people often tend to interpret text slurs in vocal music as something halfway between phrasing (or even worse "legato") and pure text (melisma) syntax. At least in ancient music there is nothing comparable to the later legato. The only term bein quite close "ligature" means retard. Thus, I have decided not to use any slurs for melismas in vocal music, even if that is against common typesetting rules. To my opinion "- - -" and "____" is syntactually clear enough and also easy enough to read. Of course, this is a personal choice. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Christian Mondrup wrote: > If, however, an M-Tx update as outlined above is considered, then I > support Cristof's suggestion. Furthermore prepmx must be able to > distinct between vocal and instrumental contexts within one score. I think, using the same syntax for things, behaving differently on different context, is not a good idea. Why not having one thing for text and one for slurs? A no-text-brace may then or may not generate automatically a corresponding slur. regards Bernhard _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
