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Re: Cross staff slur help
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Cross staff slur help |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:44:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a piece of piano music from the opening chorus of The
> Gondoliers that I'm struggling to get my head round. A scan is
> attached. It's a cross-staff slur, but my problem is that the music
> in the left hand is still continuing (the crochet F) while the slur is
> crossing the staves. I can't work out a) how to start setting this in
> LilyPond or b) what it means in performance.
>
> Can anyone help?
It's a rising melody line starting in the left hand and moving to the
right. The "music in the left hand" is _not_ "still continuing" in the
execution, but it would be silly to write an actual rest here while the
sustain pedal is down.
So that's probably a case for f4*1/4 in the input.
--
David Kastrup