Re: cross-staff "synchronized" grace-note figure

[David Fedoruk]

>  Is it possible in a piano (grand-staff) score to create a grace-note figures
>  such that:
>  1. the figure consists of 4 notes in the bass staff (beamed as small 8th 
> notes)
>  2. the second note of the figure synchronizes with the same pitch on beat 1 
> of
>  the treble staff.
>  3. this second note is cross-staff beamed to the note in the treble staff

I'm not sure which notes are grace and which are not. The problem is
interesting *think* i'm encountering a similar one, but you haven't
given me enough information to tell.


>
>  Essentially this is a sort of "arabesque" figure in which a chief melodic 
> note
>  (here, the beat-1 note of the treble staff) is ornamented by a grace-like 
> figure
>  beginning one pitch before the chief (treble-staff) note and finishing 2 
> pitches
>  later.
>

Sometimes what looks complex turns out to have a simple solution.

Cheers,
David


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David Fedoruk
B.Mus. UBC,1986
Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003


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