Re: not-so-ancient flags

[madhg]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 
> 
> There are currently three things that are bothering me:
> 
> 1) What are the optimal values for the flag angle, the flag length (for 
> up/downstems), the flag thickness and the space between two adjacent
> flags?
> 
> 2) The flags do not start at the very top/bottom of the stem, but actually
> a 
> little bit below/above. This looks awkward.
> 
> 3) The slash through the stem/flag with the acciaccatura looks really bad.
> 
> 

1)  Personally I like the flags as in my message of June 17 in this thread. 
But it's a matter of taste, as you say.  I'm coming at this from the point
of view of "ancient flags" (early classical period), rather than alternative
flags for modern music

3) In this period, "acciaccatura" as a melodic ornament did not exist (the
word referred to a dissonance lightly touched on harpsichord in the middle
of a chord; not normally notated, but improvised).  

I've looked through my facsimiles of later 18th century keyboard music. 
They used tiny grace-notes, no slash through the stem, and not usually
slurred to the following note (though there are slurred examples).  Here's
an example, Hässler 1779.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p18634681/grace-notes.jpg  

I've clumsily drawn a slash:

http://www.nabble.com/file/p18634681/grace-notes-2.jpg 




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