Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

[fiëé visuëlle]

Am 2009-09-25 um 16:37 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:

> Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 16:21:01 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than
> > > a quarter)
> > > have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead
> > > of slurs.
> >
> > That is *not* modern practice... I would *strongly* recommend that
> > you try to convince your editor to use modern practice (i.e., beaming
> > to the beat, slurring for melismas), which is the current standard,
> > not least of all because it's significantly easier for singers to  
> > read.
>
> Actually, here in Europe, that is traditional notation and the  
> standard for
> any non-modern pieces! E.g. take any Bärenreiter, Breitkopf, Carus,  
> etc.
> edition and you'll see that all of them use beaming for melismas in  
> the vocal
> voices!
>
> So, for modern music (musical, pop, etc.), slurs might be the  
> standard, but if
> you are used to classical music, the "new" notation is quite  
> confusing and the
> singers will have problems when sight-reading.


Ok, so he's right (and he complains a lot about those American  
defaults of all music typesetters), but I find it illogical  
nevertheless.

I'm very glad, Thomas Morgan provided me with a patch to typeset minor  
chords as lowercase - some other European or at least German default  
that LilyPond still doesn't support.

Now my (and his) last wish that I don't know to fulfill is -is and -es  
chords (see my other mail).


Thank you all!


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