-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 15. August 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi all, > > > I would have to go home and look into my > > music engraving handbook to verify your claims. > > "Beaming of notes associated with a lyric now follows standard > notational practice. (Traditional practice, now obsolete, was to use > flags for eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc. Beams were used only > for melismas.)" > — The Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Gerou & Lusk), pg. > 186
Still, all new editions of classical music published by the big German publishers like Bärenreiter, Carus, Edition Peters, etc. still use that "obsolete practice"... Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIpbFQTqjEwhXvPN0RAsK1AJ9ZZnmgcB7fC2r3Sm5B7NLiKZXxRACg0EUn 63K924MOD2sqtrRqair3ihE= =UaVx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
