Re: Small flageolet

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello Harm,

I am not a guitar player myself. I’m engraving a New Complexity School score by my colleague, a work for 10 string guitar, notated in bass and treble clefs, with the lower strings in the bass. Chords of two notes with two harmonics on two strings occur throughout the piece. I assume this is playable because I have heard no complaints as yet from either of two guitarists associated with the work.

See attached except from the MS for what I am trying to achieve.

There’s an interesting philosophical point here about lilypond. Quite often in these complex scores I need to do things that are not Common Era period ‘rules’. Lilypond is so rule bound that it is often hard to override it. To that extent, it is always a struggle setting contemporary music with lilypond. The philosophical issue is, should lilypond block you from doing certaint things becasue they don’t occur in 19c scores, or should you be allowed complete freedom? If I want two staccatos stacked on top of each other, why should I be banned from this? I know this is a subtle point, as the whole idea of lilypond is to capture the rules of fine engraving practice automatically, but I wonder if lilypond goes too far in trying to determine my _musical_ practice as well? Food for thought.

Andrew

On 11 June 2016 at 10:02:50 PM, Thomas Morley (address@hidden) wrote:

Being a guitarist myself, I have no idea what two flageolets on same 
note should mean. Could you explain? 

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