----- Original Message -----
From: "Urs Liska" <u...@openlilylib.org>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing
Am 11.11.2013 15:34, schrieb Phil Holmes:
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Not sure which practice you hate: slurs or beams? For myself, a singer
who sings for 10s of hours a week, I like slurs to indicate melisma and
think beaming for the same purpose is irritating in the extreme.
It's the slurs.
I have over and over made the experience that slura indicating melismas
make singers read them as phrasings. As said I have worked with lots of
singers, from students who want to become school teachers up to
international level opera/concert singers. And I've hardly met anyone
having a clear picture of this notational situation. They just _see_ it
and _feel_ it. And in this case their feeling is wrong.
So I stand to it that slurs as melismas 'actively' give a false
impression and therefore make it harder (if not impossible) to correctly
read the score. It's on a very subtle level so one hardly notices the
difference. But that doesn't make it less problematic.
Urs
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I disagree. But my question is: is you don't use slurs to indicate melisma,
how do you indicate it - especially with crochets, minims and semi-breves?
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Phil Holmes
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