Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

 

4.) What's the proper way to write the following:

    c4 <c d>4 <c d e>4

when c's duration is actually "2." (a single button press) and d's
duration is "2" (again a single button press)? Should one draw c2. or
three c4, connected with a tie/slur?

I think there are different approaches to this.

While the 2. makes it clearer that the c2. is one note, not three, it would make it ambiguous when the d comes in--unless you do it with parallel voices and add a r4 rest.  But then you have to deal with tweaking stem and rest directions and locations, and this approach doesn't generally work well with more than 2 voices.

So, I'd just tie them together.

Although, for this particular set of notes you'd need to do a lot of tweaking to get the layout clear.  The default output for this cluster is pretty lame, with the ties between the c's not being on the same line, and the tie between the d's looking like it is a slur from d to e.

The default output looks better for a normal chord.

\version "2.19.15"


\score {
    \header { piece = "Parallel voices" }
    {
        \time 3/4
        << { c'2. } \\ { r4 d'2 } \\ { r2 e'4 } >>
        << { c'2. } \\ { r4 d'2 } \\ { r2 g'4 } >>
    }
}

\score {
    \header { piece = "Ties" }
    {
        \time 3/4
        c'4 ~ <c' d'>4 ~ <c' d' e'>4
        c'4 ~ <c' e'>4 ~ <c' e' g'>4
    }
}



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