Re: GDP: ties

[Trevor Bača]

On 10/28/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> Should ties go in Rhythms or Expressive marks?
>
> Pros of 1.3.2 Curves
> - it makes a nice progression from ties, slurs, phrasing slurs
> - beginners are more likely to look for ties in here
>
>
> Pros of 1.2.1 Writing rhythms
> - ties really do effect the duration of a note, rather than providing
> expressive notation
> - beginners should have already read the tutorial, and will therefore
> know the difference between ties and slurs.  If they haven't read the
> tutorial, we officially Do Not Care (tm) about them, so that negates the
> advantages of Expressive marks.

Ties, for my vote.

(Except laissez vibrer "ties" ... which should go under expressive marks ;-)



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Trevor Bača
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