Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011 22:54 > )To: James Lowe; colinpkcampbell > )Cc: Phil Holmes; davidandrewrog...@gmail.com; Trevor Daniels; Shane > )Brandes; Francisco Vila; lilypond-user > )Subject: Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music > ) > )W dniu 20 lutego 2011 01:50:15 UTC+1 użytkownik J

RE: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-21 Thread James Lowe
Hello )-Original Message- )From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com] )Sent: 20 February 2011 22:54 )To: James Lowe; colinpkcampbell )Cc: Phil Holmes; davidandrewrog...@gmail.com; Trevor Daniels; Shane )Brandes; Francisco Vila; lilypond-user )Subject: Re: engraving

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-21 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "James Lowe" ; "colinpkcampbell" Cc: "Phil Holmes" ; ; "Trevor Daniels" ; "Shane Brandes" ; "Francisco Vila" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Sunday, February 20,

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 20 lutego 2011 01:50:15 UTC+1 użytkownik James Lowe napisał: > Hello, > > From: Janek Warchoł >> >>2011/2/19 Phil Holmes : >>> Just to back up my "either is OK" comment, here's a little bit from >>> Chappell's version of the Gondoliers.  Personally I think this is lazy, >>> but >>> it's ho

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/20 Phil Holmes : > - Original Message - From: "Werner LEMBERG" > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:34 PM > Subject: Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different > syllabes? > >>> Lo and behold, another

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> According to my research following up your post, I think it's > actually portamento, which is explicitly said to be a vocal > technique indicated by slurs, as opposed to portato which is a > string technique, and includes staccato marks. Oops, sorry, you are right. Sorry for the sloppy wording.

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-20 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Werner LEMBERG" To: Cc: ; ; Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:34 PM Subject: Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes? Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers This slur has an exact meani

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > - Original Message - > From: "Janek Warchoł" > >> Maybe, i must ask the composer. >> Should a dashed slur be used in such a case? > > Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers That would likely be a portamento slur. -- David Kastrup _

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-02-19 02:45 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Janek Warchoł writes: Thanks for all replies. I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur for 2 notes? In the first case Werner's guess may be correct

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-02-18 01:00 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms differ, a polyphonic notation must be used - that's obvious. But, what to do in the situation pictured in the problem.png attachment? Is the notation used self-

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, -Original Message- From: Janek Warchoł Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:06:12 +0100 To: Phil Holmes , , Trevor Daniels , Shane Brandes , Francisco Vila Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music >Dear all, > >thank you for your answers

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
o: "lilypond-user" > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:00 PM > Subject: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music > > Just to back up my "either is OK" comment, here's a little bit from > Chappell's version of the Gondoliers.  Personally I thi

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate > with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a > phrasing slur for 2 notes? Wearing my singers' coach hat, I'd say that the slurs have two meanings: . They indicate a long first note and a shorter second

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers This slur has an exact meaning: It's a portato. You can find this kind of notation in virtually all scores from the 19th century, including both German (e.g. Wagner) and Italian (e.g. Verdi) composers. Werner ___

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread madMuze
trongly disrecommend this solution. In 45 years of working with singers, every slur seems an invitation to scoop and any other notation is therefore redundant. David -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/engraving-question---slur-across-notes-sung-to-different-syllabes--tp3096275

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" Maybe, i must ask the composer. Should a dashed slur be used in such a case? Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers -- Phil Holmes <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/19 Reinhold Kainhofer : > Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, um 16:31:36 schrieb Janek Warchoł: >> 2011/2/19 David Kastrup : >> > It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the >> > slurs might be a playing instruction for them. >> >> Maybe, i must ask the composer. >> Shou

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, um 16:31:36 schrieb Janek Warchoł: > 2011/2/19 David Kastrup : > > It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the > > slurs might be a playing instruction for them. > > Maybe, i must ask the composer. > Should a dashed slur be used in such a cas

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/19 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> Thanks for all replies. >> I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... >> Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur >> for 2 notes? >> In the first case Werner's guess may be correct

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:00 PM Subject: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Thanks for all replies. > I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... > Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur > for 2 notes? > In the first case Werner's guess may be correct (a slur would prohibit > singers f

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread David Rogers
* Janek Warchoł [2011-02-18 21:00]: Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms differ, a polyphonic notation must be used - that's obvious. But, what to do in the situation pictured in the problem.png attachment? Is the notation used self-expl

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Janek Warchoł wrote Friday, February 18, 2011 8:00 PM i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms differ, a polyphonic notation must be used - that's obvious. But, what to do in the situation pictured in the problem.png attachment? Is the notation

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-18 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Hi, > > In vocal music slurs usually indicate melismatas. What a slur across > notes sung to different syllabes could mean? > I ask because composer of a piece i'm transcribing urges me to create > such slurs, and doing so is in my opinion contrary to common sense - > and

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread Shane Brandes
I completely disagree, and strongly prefer the explicit example. Shane 2011/2/18 Francisco Vila : > 2011/2/18 Janek Warchoł : >> What do you think about this? > > 'problem.png'  is frequent and clear, often seen in  quick/homemade > scores. I speak from memory. > > Singers see the first note and

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In vocal music slurs usually indicate melismatas. What a slur across > notes sung to different syllabes could mean? Legato, as you've correctly deduced. However, it also indicates possibilities for taking a breath. Richard Strauss uses a lot of such slurs... Just do what the composer is aski

engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, In vocal music slurs usually indicate melismatas. What a slur across notes sung to different syllabes could mean? I ask because composer of a piece i'm transcribing urges me to create such slurs, and doing so is in my opinion contrary to common sense - and contrary to engraving practice... The

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/18 Janek Warchoł : > What do you think about this? 'problem.png' is frequent and clear, often seen in quick/homemade scores. I speak from memory. Singers see the first note and will sing it unless there is a rest. This is my staff, no rest for me, I sing the note. 'explicit' is better,

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:00 PM Subject: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms

engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms differ, a polyphonic notation must be used - that's obvious. But, what to do in the situation pictured in the problem.png attachment? Is the notation used self-explanatory? It's all about the first note.

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitatingslur

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Xavier Scheuer" To: "Neil Puttock" Cc: "Janek Warchoł" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:23 PM Subject: Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitatingslur 2011/2/

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2011/2/15 Neil Puttock : > > You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the > neutral-direction based on the stem directions of surrounding notes > (but only in the current bar, I think): Wow, I did not know the existence of this engraver! It is not mentioned in the doc (except

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/15 Neil Puttock : > 2011/2/15 Janek Warchoł : > >> Do you mean simply using \slurDown? I'd say that the result (attached) >> is indeed a little better, but flipping bes quarter note makes it yet >> more good-looking. > > You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the > neu

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2011/2/15 Janek Warchoł : > Do you mean simply using \slurDown? I'd say that the result (attached) > is indeed a little better, but flipping bes quarter note makes it yet > more good-looking. You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the neutral-direction based on the stem dir

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 14 lutego 2011 21:17:57 UTC+1 użytkownik Shane Brandes napisał: > > Hi Janek, > > I looked through some scores and it does not seem to be out of > place as is, which was also my initial reaction. Really? Well, for me it looks odd. > I did notice a few > instance were the slur  lines were

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-14 Thread Shane Brandes
Hi Janek, I looked through some scores and it does not seem to be out of place as is, which was also my initial reaction. I did notice a few instance were the slur lines were engraved crossing through the stems when they would have otherwise been too high. It is always also possible to have th

engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, i have a levitating slur like in the attachment. Fixing slur is easy - just change the direction of stems of bflat notes under it. But the question is, should the direction of bflat notes outside the slur be changed as well (i.e. the ones over "terrae")? What's the common engraving practice?

Re: engraving question

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Thornock
Hi everyone, I can't help but to comment on this. For one thing, how would such an analysis as Han-Wen proposes proceed -- statistically? >From all of my observation of European hand engraving, clefs only take up extra horizontal spacing when it is necessary for the sake of fitting the clef. Ot

Re: engraving question

2007-08-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Joe Neeman escreveu: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 11:48, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> 2007/8/16, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I'm trying to tweak the spacing code, and I've come across a case where >>> I'm not sure what to do. In the attached example, I have a note followed >>> by a clef chang

Re: engraving question

2007-08-18 Thread Joe Neeman
On Saturday 18 August 2007 11:48, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 2007/8/16, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm trying to tweak the spacing code, and I've come across a case where > > I'm not sure what to do. In the attached example, I have a note followed > > by a clef change followed by a bar line

Re: engraving question

2007-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/8/16, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to tweak the spacing code, and I've come across a case where I'm > not sure what to do. In the attached example, I have a note followed by a > clef change followed by a bar line. Given that the clef fits in the space > that would be there anyw

Re: engraving question

2007-08-16 Thread Mark Knoop
Mark Knoop wrote: > Joe Neeman wrote: >> I'm trying to tweak the spacing code, and I've come across a case where I'm >> not sure what to do. In the attached example, I have a note followed by a >> clef change followed by a bar line. Given that the clef fits in the space >> that would be there an

engraving question

2007-08-16 Thread Joe Neeman
I'm trying to tweak the spacing code, and I've come across a case where I'm not sure what to do. In the attached example, I have a note followed by a clef change followed by a bar line. Given that the clef fits in the space that would be there anyway, should it take up extra space? Any strong o