Re: confusion: melismata and beams (bug?)

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you want to change it, please see
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-01/msg00553.html

  /Mats

Peter Chubb wrote:
> > > > > > "Bertalan" == Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> Bertalan> With default settings beamed notes don't mean
> Bertalan> melismata. However, with autobeaming set to false, beamed
> Bertalan> notes do mean melismata. Is this intentional?
>
> There are two common conventions for vocal music:
>       One common convention is that a beam indicates a group of notes
>       to be sung to the same syllable.  
>
>       Another is that the music is beamed normally, and slur marks are
>       used to indicate notes to be sung to the same syllable.
>
> I don't know what the intent of the Lilypond authors was, but this
> bevaviour therefore works quite well for common cases.
>
> --
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