Olav -- This explanation was very helpful in clarifying the subtleties of slash notation. In piping there is no need for the notation. Because the instrument sounds constantly, an intervening note of some other pitch must be fingered to give the impression of two successive notes at the same pitch. Piping scores are normally explicit on the pitch of such separating notes, which are written out as gracenotes. (The intervening notes are typically chosen for ease of fingering. A skillful composer can choose playable notes which also sound as a sort of descant.)
Drum scores for pipe tunes often contain the slashing notation, however. I am still trying to figure out if drummers recognize any practical or semantic difference between a slashed note and its beamed, written-out equivalent. In the context of Schubert's "Die Allmacht", I am wondering how the preprocessors M-Tx and PMX handle the case of slashed notes to indicate implied triplets. This choral work has the explicit time signature of "common time" for all parts. The organ part contains triplets through the entire piece (making this part effectively 12/8). In the first measure, triplets are indicated explicitly using a tie and the numeral 3, but by the next measure, there are only slashed notes. I have a singing score I wrote out using MusiXTeX. I need to add parts for the organ accompaniment. This seems like an opportunity to learn M-Tx, but I wonder if it will object to the mismatch between the explicit time signature and the implied triplets. Perhaps this is one rare case where writing out the beamed notes is actually a convenience for the performer. -- Doug MacKenzie > Hi, > > I play violin on a very moderate level. But I think I know enough to say > this: > . . . > One slash across the stem is usually shorthand for 8ths on the same note, > e.g. > a half note with one slash is to be played as 4 8ths. > > one slash can also be used in this way on notes which are already beamed > as > 8ths: play 16ths. > I hope that using slashes to indicate 8th, 16th and 32th notes are > obsolete, > stemming from a time when one had to save work when one was copying out > voices from the score by hand, and that the 3 slashes meaning tremolo is > the > only acceptable use of slashes now a day. > > Olav _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
