Re: octavating slurs

[David Olson]

> Also, doing everything to accommodate 
> inexperienced sight-readers can often lead to bad conclusions.

Well, <em> experienced </em> sight-singers have certain expectations.

If you are ever in Los Angeles on a Monday night, 
and want to attend a midnight sight-singing session, 
(shape note singing)
let me know.


Most people think of sight-singing as a means to an end. 

Collective sight-singing is nirvana. 



One might speak of "hedonic sight singers" (able to sight-sing for pleasure),

and "ahedonic sight singers" (unable to feel pleasure while sight-singing).


Sorry, my comments are no longer lilypondish, 

nevertheless represent a little-known aspect of the sociability of music. 

Thanks again, David Kastrup, and others who built this option into Lilypond!

David Olson
Los Angeles


p.s. Also, these songs are not so difficult.
<http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/2/28/LexingtonBillings1770a.pdf>



----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
To: "dadadharma @dslextreme.com" <address@hidden>, "lilypond-user" 
<address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, November 1, 2019 5:51:49 AM
Subject: Re: octavating slurs

On 01.11.19 00:10, David Olson wrote:
> This is for sight-singing fun; I'll hand out a song sheet, we'll spend 
> 2 or 3 minutes on this, once through, then sing something else.
>
> So, for the basses who take the profound option, it would be nice if 
> there was a slur symbol right where their eyes are focused
>
> If it can't be done, we'll live with it...


It can be done, as David K. wrote. However, I want to say that there are 
good reasons why this isn’t normally done and this is a case where 
LilyPond’s default behaviour shouldn’t be overridden unless one has good 
reasons to break the rule in a special instance. “I like it better that 
way” and “That’s what I’m used to” are (almost) never good reasons.

Also, doing everything to accommodate inexperienced sight-readers can 
often lead to bad conclusions.

Best, Simon