Re: GDP: ties

[Trevor Bača]

On 10/29/07, Trevor Bača <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Should ties go in Rhythms or Expressive marks?
> >
> > Pros of 1.3.2 Curves
> > - it makes a nice progression from ties, slurs, phrasing slurs
> > - beginners are more likely to look for ties in here
> >
> >
> > Pros of 1.2.1 Writing rhythms
> > - ties really do effect the duration of a note, rather than providing
> > expressive notation
> > - beginners should have already read the tutorial, and will therefore
> > know the difference between ties and slurs.  If they haven't read the
> > tutorial, we officially Do Not Care (tm) about them, so that negates the
> > advantages of Expressive marks.
>
> Ties, for my vote.

I mean "rhythms" ...

>
> (Except laissez vibrer "ties" ... which should go under expressive marks ;-)



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