Re: Engraving a close harmony

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Dirck Nagy

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Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:36:19 +0000

Sure, Gould's solution is fine. Lots of composers used angled stems in their manuscripts, even. (Bartok, etc)

I couldnt find what Kurt Stone might have said, but Gardner Read gives these solutions:

But lots of publishers did differently. The 19^th century editions of Chopin i could find (Schleissinger, Peters, Wessel, Breitkopf) did not use angled stems. Neither did Chopin himself. Here is his autograph of Etude 11, opus 10, and an early published edition:

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Elaine Gould in Behind Bars explicitly rejects this layout (page 91: "Altered Unisons").

Paul

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Subject: Re: Engraving a close harmony

How about using;

\once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #1.0

Here is the code:

\version "2.24.1"

global = {

\key c \major

\time 6/8

}

rightOne = \relative c'' {

\global

% Music follows here.

e16 f f dis dis! e

}

rightTwo = \relative c'' {

\global

% Music follows here.

d16 g, g \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #1.0 d'! \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #1.0 d! g,

}

\score {

<<

\new Staff = "right" \with {

midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"

} << \rightOne \\ \rightTwo >>

>>

}