On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Federico Bruni
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Il 03/06/2012 15:20, David Kastrup ha scritto:
Federico Bruni<address@hidden> writes:
Hi,
can you tell me what's the "meaning" of a stem which connects a note
in a voice to a rest (?) in another voice?
See image attached.
There is no rest to be seen. There are just two voices which share some
noteheads. Also there is one glissando between two notes.
I'm referring to the third beat of the bar.
I'm wondering what the author means with that stem which connects the F in second voice to the beam in first voice.
Yes, you are right: they are sharing the same notehead.
But I think it's wrong: only one voice can play that note.
Probably the author should have used a (spacer) rest in first voice?
This sort of notation is very common. Rather than notating only what is physically possible for the player, the notator tries to show the musical sense of the passage. So, here, we have two voices, and the notator is trying to show each voice completely. At this point, the two voices converge on the same pitch. (If this were scored for two instruments, both would touch that note together.)
HTH,
David