Re: Changing voice order...

[Mats Bengtsson]

On 2016-11-02 14:56, Noeck wrote:
> Am 02.11.2016 um 14:48 schrieb David Kastrup:
> > >This particular one is... horrific.
> In most of the cases the author should just have used chords instead of
> voices.
My guess that the intention was to stay as close to Bach's manuscripts 
as possible.
I have used similar tricks to imitate the composers layout for "chords" 
with separate stems per note, when typesetting other baroque music. The 
stem order can indeed provide hints on how the composers wanted the 
chords to be broken, which is lost if you use standard modern 
typesetting practice chords. A famous example of a modern edition trying 
to imitate the original manuscript in this respect is late Werner 
Icking's typesetting of Bach's Violin Sonatas and Partitas (though done 
using MusiXTeX, not LilyPond), see 
http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Violin_Sonatas_and_Partitas,_BWV_1001-1006_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian), 
bottom of the page.

I clearly support the proposal to change of the voice order to a more 
logical top to bottom structure, even though it would break some of my 
LilyPond code.

/Mats

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