Re: Changing voice order...

[David Wright]

On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 15:36:56 (-0000), Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Changing voice order...
> 
> 
> 
> >There are by now two components to my proposal: fading out \voiceOne
> >... \voiceFour since they _never_ correspond to voices 1/2/3/4 in a
> >four-voiced context but to voices 1/4/2/3.  And changing the meaning of
> ><< \\ \\ \\ >>.
> 
> 
> I'm concerned by this.  I don't believe I have ever used more than 2
> voices in choral music: typically the sops/tenors get voice one, and
> the alto/basses get voice two.  If any of these is doubled (e.g.
> sop1 and sop2) then they are shown as chorded notes, still in their
> normal voice.  If it gets more complex than this, then current vocal
> music almost always resorts to a stave per vocal group.  It looks to
> me like the proposal would end up with voiceTwo having upstems.  I
> am very much against that.  It would mean I would have to update a
> lot of music to make it usable.  I don't use concert-ly 'cos I find
> it a pain on Windows.
> 
> Who uses four voices on one stave in vocal setting?

Well, I thought, if anyone does, it'll be the Novello Book of Carols.
It's all so over-compressed. But I could only come up with what's
technically three, I suppose. (I only looked for fun.)

Cheers,
David.

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