On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:24 am, Don Simons wrote: > It's true that PMX doesn't have beamed open-headed notes. It's also true > that in my published edition of Storace, > http://www.pchpublish.com/gif/bspasap6.gif, > there are long passages using beamed, open-headed notes. To get that I > devised an elaborate inline TeX solution (which might have been less > elaborate had I realized that \hb existed). > > In this case it could be argued that for reasons of clarity, the notation > might be replaced by printing side-by-side noteheads
This is clear in keyboard music only. With a stringed instrument, side-by-side noteheads indicate that there are actually two notes to be played on two different strings simultaneously. This is less usual than playing a single note, in which case you want a single note head. Trust me, there is a very good reason for using two stems on the same note head in guitar music. There is a clear difference in interpretation between using a stem and beam instead of an eighth rest. The former means that the eighths are sostenuto, the latter not. This is absolutely clear from an inspection of early 19th century guitar music. In piano music a pedal or even a slur is used instead. The tyranny of the piano didn't start until the 1880's. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html email: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Full name in address field is needed to pass filter) _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
