Re: music expression explanation

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:13 AM


> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:41:26AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote:
> > > > Graham Percival wrote:
> > > > > If you have an idea for a general clarification that the 
> > > > > syntax is
> > > > > "pitch duration other", then I'm all for it.  If it's a simple
> > > > > "you need to put the ' before the duration", then I'd probably
> > > > > reject it as being insufficiently general.
> > > That said, this is really Trevor's area now.  Let's see what he
> > > says.
> >
> > Thanks for the prompt!  I think the best place is in
> > 2.1.2 Simple notation, in the Durations (rhythms) section.
> > This is where the entry of a duration is first mentioned,
> > and it's immediately after introducing the ' and , marks.
>
> Eh?!?!  You want to tell people to put articulation and dynamic
> marks after the duration, before they've been told how to do
> articulations and dynamics?  Remember that the idea is to give a
> general:
> @var{pitch} @var{dur} @var{other}
>
> You might want to take a second look through the rest of this
> thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00737.html

No, you should.  This thread has nothing to do
with articulation and dynamics.  It is to to
with the relative order of octave marks and
durations.

Trevor