Re: chords w/ornaments

[Simon Bailey]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 02:09, Graham Percival wrote:
> > certain ornaments wouldn't make sense either on a chord or in a chord --
> > a trill for example:
> > 
> > <c1\trill a e,> or <c1 a e,>\trill -- neither makes sense...
> 
> It makes sense to me... I'd play:
> c16 d c d c d c d
> a1
> e,1
> 
> (well, I wouldn't hold the bottom e on the cello, but you get the idea)

not being a chord instrument player (it just don't work on a trombone),
it wouldnt make sense to me, but i get your meaning... :)

> I don't think that it's too confusing for a composer to write <c1\fermata a e>
> instead of <c1 a e>\fermata, but it could become messy for a programmer
> to make LilyPond interpret <chord>\fermata.  In this case I'd say that since
> it's not (very) broken, don't fix it.  :)

it was only a suggestion -- i can live with both methods and if the
second way is too messy for programming, then, as you say, dont fix it.
:)

greetings,
simon.
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