On Wednesday 20 October 2004 06:47 am, Christian Mondrup wrote:
To my best knowledge all notes belonging to a chord with a dotted note value must be dotted. My favourite music notation reference, Gardner Read, Music Notation confirms that along with detailed rules on where to place dots in case of small chord intervals. The
notation of the dotted quarter-note in your example line 1 bar 1
does not adhere to the noation standard described by Gardner Read.
Look out! My copy is old enough to be wrong in this regard. That is
why Gardner Read is very low on my list. If you have a recent revised copy it should be ok.
If there are 2+ voices on one staff, line notes on a downward stem should have the dots in the spaces below. daveA
Quoting Gardner Read, Music Notation, 2nd ed, Boston 1969:
The dot ... is always placed in the center of a _space_, regardless of whether the note is on a line or in a space. ... The general rule governing dotted notes placed on lines is that the dot is placed in the _space above_ rather than below ... An important exception to to this rule occurs when the interval of a second places one note-head on a line and one in a space. If the lower of the two notes is on a line, its dot(s) must go in the space _beneath_ it, rather than above ... The inflexible rule is: Never put two independent augmentation dots in the same staff space
... In addition, when two dotted notes that are somewhat adjacenton the staff require separate stems, the lower note being on a line, its dot(s) must also be placed in the space below.
However, M-Tx/PMX/musixtex does not adhere to the latter rule! Bar 1 in the M-Tx code below illustrates that. Its processing result is the example in Gardner's book on wrong dot placement of the lower voice note. The processing result of bar 2, in which I've forced the dot down, is Gardner's example of correct dot placement of the lower voice note!
MySolo: Voices V1,V2; Clefs G Style: MySolo Meter: 3/4 Bars/Line: 1
%% \nobarnumbers
%% w100 b4.a c | g2d |
b4.a c \pt0\ g2 rb4
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