Re: FiguredBass extenders for only part of the figure

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 7. Juni 2008 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold <at> kainhofer.com> writes:
> > In Mozarts "Benedictus sit Deus" the figured bass sometimes has figures,
> > where one of the numbers uses extenders over the whole measure, while the
> > second one is repeated. An scan of a hand-engraved score is attached.
>
> It came to me on my vacation that you just need to split add some 16th note
> figures.  I've done it for the first figure pair, but not the rest.

Thanks, that's also the workaround that I finally used. Unfortunately, it is 
not correct musically... In particular, I'm still thinking about implement 
MusicXML output from lilypond one day and then the real musical meaning of 
the notes becomes relevant and not only how they look on paper. And 
musically, there is a difference between 
<5 3>16 <5> <5 3>16 <5>
and (in output)
5 ______
3  3  3  3
because in the latter the third is played for an eighth each, while in the 
figuremode snippet it is only played for a sixteenth...

As soon as you try to transcribe the figured bass numbers into real notes, the 
difference is crucial.


Cheers,
Reinhold
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