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Re: Consecutive melismata - error in NR?
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Colin Hall |
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Re: Consecutive melismata - error in NR? |
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Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:40:19 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:26:07PM +0200, Philip Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following appears in NR v.2.14.2, section 2.1.1, Common notation for
> vocal music, Multiple notes to one syllable (see page 233 of PDF version):
>
> Note that this method cannot be used to indicate two melismata if the first
> one is immediately followed by another.
>
> ========================
>
> My question concerns the last sentence (?Note that ...?). I think the method
> _can_ be used to indicate two consecutive melismata, e.g. the following
> seems to work just fine, to me:
>
> \relative c''
> <<
> \new Voice = "melody" {
> \time 3/4
> f4 g8
> \melisma
> f e f
> \melismaEnd
> g8
> \melisma
> f e f
> \melismaEnd
> e2.
> }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
> E -- le -- i -- son
> }
> >>
Thanks for the report, Philip. I tried your example and I agree that
the documentation seems misleading.
I wonder if it was intended to warn the user against this situation,
which typesets fine but gives a warning:
\relative c''
<<
\new Voice = "melody" {
\time 3/4
f4 g8
\melisma
f e f
\melismaEnd
\melisma
f e f
\melismaEnd
e2.
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
E -- le -- i -- son
}
>>
Those lines were added to the documentation in by Trevor Daniels back in 2010.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=de43d3813a266bccbb33b1223fa61c4187a71d8d
Trevor, any recollections? A long time ago, I know.
> Unless I'm missing the point, then the sentence should
> simply be deleted.
I've created a tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2597
Cheers,
Colin.
--
Colin Hall