Re: grace notes MIDI playback

[David Wright]

On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 21:08:30 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
> David Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
> >> David Kastrup wrote
> >> > So how should this be rigged instead?  Nominal length, unless that would
> >> > swallow all of the following notelength or more?  And otherwise scale
> >> > down repeatedly by a factor of 2 until it doesn't?
> >> 
> >> That sounds like an excellent approach as appogiaturas should be played 
> >> with
> >> their nominal lengths. For instance, see the first bar of the original
> >> notation of Mozart's Alla Turca rondo:
> >> 
> >> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n184220/mozart_allaturca.png> 
> >> 
> >> It should be interpreted as:
> >> 
> >> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n184220/RondoAllaTurcaMozart.png>
> >>  
> >
> > That's not true for all appoggiaturas of that era, is it? I was
> > taught that c8 b4. would be performed as c4 b8 or even c4 b8-. which
> > would sound like c4 b16 r16 perhaps.
> >
> > Looking in learned texts, I've just come across one where
> > c8 b2 r2 is to be performed c2 b2 so that rest is gone.
> >
> > (c8 is an appoggiatura in all cases above.)
> 
> Man, that's just sick.

Sorry, I don't understand.

> Are there rules given in your learned texts about what to pick when?

Any "rules" (conventions might be a better word) of any particular
period (and locality) have to be modified by context, taste etc.
So I suspect you know the answer is no. It also depends on who you
read and who you talk to/take the advice of.

Cheers,
David.