Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> To make two voices look like they are in the same chord, put \stemUp > or \stemDown (depending on the situation) to one of the voices, then > put \stemDown (or \stemUp) to separate them again. The stems of both > voices are perfectly merged, so it looks like a single voice chord. This gives ver

Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-14 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, poor copyist of works by Smetana or Rachmaninoff - the code would be cluttered with \stemXXX commands, effectively loosing LilyPond's automatic stem directioning ... :-( Tomas Valusek Frédéric Chiasson napsal(a): Like Tomas, I would very much like to be able to tie notes from two or

Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-14 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Like Tomas, I would very much like to be able to tie notes from two or more voices, to the single note or chord following (or preceding) those momentary or temporary voices. It is possible to do this with the actual code. Karl gave me this trick. To make two voices look like they are in the sa

Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-13 Thread Steve D
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Steve D wrote: > > [...] Piano music, > like Tomas writes, often splits into temporary voices within a single > staff, all played with the same hand, lasting only a fraction of a > measure for instance, that resolve into a single note or chord in one > voi

Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-13 Thread Steve D
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:01:44PM +0100, Tomas Valusek wrote: > > I'm a pianist, and in piano music, itš quite usual that polyphony is > "occasional" - in many times, I need say that one note is hanging over > several other notes in the same hand. Like Tomas, I play piano and compose for that