Rodolfo Medina wrote: >(Don Simons wrote)
>> I do get the same error message you got with " cd22xT02 g". Half note >> (or dotted half) tremolos are intentionally not allowed. >I had looked at PMX manual, where half note tremolos are implemented and illustrated with examples, as you say: Sorry! I left out an important part of the sentence. I meant to say " Half note or dotted half) tremolos with no connecting beam are intentionally not allowed." >What is it meant by unmeasured tremolo? Unbeamed? I'm pretty sure "unmeasured tremolo" does not mean unbeamed. Read does state that "in a measured tremolo the hearer will consciously perceive the note values of the alternating notes. In a moderate tempo he would hear 1/16 notes as 1/16 notes; in a faster tempo he would be able to hear eighth notes as eighth notea. In an unmeasured tremolo, no specific number of alternations is heard. For very fast tempos a tremolo written in 1/16 notes would ensure that no precise note values would be distinguished..." To me, this talks more about how to play the tremolos than about how to notate them. And it's not explicit about how to notate the distinction, but it does seem to imply that the total number of beams is directly tied to how fast the notes go. A bit later he includes a table of notations for "unmeasured tremolos from the whole note to the eighth note in fast, moderate, and slow tempos." The fast tempo ones all have two beams; moderate 3, and slow 4. The only ones with no beam connected are for whole notes (which also have no stem), and for quarter notes. All the rest have at least one beam connecting the stems. That's where I got the idea than 1/2 note tremolos need at least one beam connected. But since the table only applies to unmeasured tremolos, strictly speaking it leaves open the question of whether a measured half note tremolo could have no connecting beams. Read makes a few other statements on these matters that I also find ambiguous, but I won't go into them here. Maybe I should try to find another reference. --Don ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
