Good question! I am trying to write clarinet multiphonics. Traditionally (and by traditionally I mean in the past 10 years wherever I see it), the middle note of a clarinet multiphonic is written as a quarter note regardless of the multiphonic's duration. This is to signify that it may or may not appear depending on the dynamic. The best example I can drum up is E Michael Richard's site on multiphonics:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~emrich/chapter6-5.html Although most scores that use notation like this are hand-written, you'll see that generally the composer endeavors to center-align the filled-in notehead. I erroneously said "flush" when I meant centered - you're absolutely right. Although I could keep the stem, this emerging notational convention seems to always dispense with the stem, so I'd like to as well. The minimal example I provided is more or less a full-measure multiphonic. In the score I'm writing, this chord is accompanied by an eps markup w/ a fingering chart, but other than that what I've put below constitutes a measure of the actual score. THANK YOU very much for your help! ~Mike On 7/4/09 12:25 PM, "Mark Polesky" <markpole...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Mike Solomon wrote: >> \relative c' { >> << >> { <c g''>1 } >> { \override Stem #'transparent = ##t c'4 } >>>> >> } >> >> You'll see that the middle notehead of the above-chord is too far >> to the right.... >> Is there anything you'd recommend that'll get this quarter note >> flush with the whole notes? > > I'll help you, but I need to understand better what you want. > > 1) Why do you want the quarter-note stem removed? > 2) The quarter-note is already "flush" with (the right side of) the > whole notes in the last example. Do you want it centered? Why? > > The reason I'm asking these questions is because I need to make > sure you're not casually violating standard engraving without good > reason. I don't mean to be annoying! It may also help if you post > a full measure so I can see the musical context. > > Thanks. > - Mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
