Re: Music Notation/Interpretation question

[Simon Albrecht]

On 08.04.2016 22:38, Alberto Simões wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is not exactly a Lilypond doubt...
>
> but imagine a chord, in a left hand piano piece, with <c d g a>
>
> Lilypond will eventually put c and g at the left of the note stem, and 
> d and a at the right (what it does exactly is not relevant for the 
> question).
>
> The question is:
>  is the side of the note relevant when analyzing a music?
>
> Basically, during my music formation, nobody ever told me anything 
> about that. But last week, when asking a friend daughter to verify a 
> transcription, she said that the notes at the right of the stem should 
> be the ones relevant for the chord, and that the side of them is 
> relevant...
>
> Do any of you ever heard anything about that? Or did you read anything?
> If so, can you share your knowledge on that? 

If you ask me, that’s nonsense. Maybe someone at some time invented such 
a system, but if that is so, then it’s a very rare corner case and not 
applicable to the vast majority of scores.
I also don’t think it’s useful (except to visualise some point made in a 
theoretical paper), since it will seriously impair legibility.

Yours, Simon