Re: ties between voices

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <carl.d.sorensen@gmail.com> writes:

> David,
>
> This notation will greatly simplify some of the choral music I set in
> the past year.   I forgot about the discussion on the lists, and so
> didn't use it even though it was available.  Thanks for making it work
>
> Aaron,
>
> I think this is a useful enough wrapper that it should be in the NR
> (and/or the LM).  I would most likely use it just in sa or tb, since
> those are the voices that usually share a staff.  This notation might
> actually reduce my use of \partcombine.  I'll have to try it out.

My personal experience is that \partcombine is mainly useful for piano
extracts (or to some degree partitura mashing): boiling down material
without much of a view for voice relations.  For choral music (and even
polyphonic piano music) I tend to prefer fixed voice relations.

-- 
David Kastrup