On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 at 11:59, Shane Brandes <shane.bran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pianist opinion. The flatting is a horrible choice. No idea how to get > them not to merge though. > -Shane > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 7:10 PM Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a Chopin piece that I'm engraving and I've run into a problem with >> some of the close harmonies he writes. He has a chord with both a d-sharp >> and a d-natural in it. The edition I'm using uses two voices and doesn't >> merge the two d's (see attached picture). I've tried this in LilyPond but >> I can't prevent the merging of the two notes (see second attached picture, >> measure one.) Is there a way to stop LilyPond from merging two notes? >> >> I've asked this question before and one of the suggestions was to use an >> enharmonic note, in this case e-flat for the d-sharp (see attached, >> measures two through four). To the pianists reading this: which measure is >> the least confusing? I've also attached the code I used to create the four >> measures. >> >> -- >> Knute Snortum >> >> Perhaps surprisingly, Chopin is one of the most pedantic note-spellers out there. I quite like Dirck’s solution. Vaughan
