Re: Percussion Notation

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 09:17:44 schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> 2011/6/27 cdg <address@hidden>
> > or two slashes on a stemmed 8th note, not a fan.
> > These appear to be the same thickness as a beam,
> > and worse of all, are completely horizontal.
> > So, is it possible to adjust the angle of these symbols?
> 
> Yes. You need to override a property of the stem object to do this.
> (StemTremolo, to be more precise - stems of notes with tremolos
> are handled differently than regular notes, so a special
> object, StemTremolo, is used instead of regular Stem).

I've looked this up in Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars", and both stem tremolos on 
beamed notes  (pp.224ff) as well as drum rolls (pp.294ff) use the same slope as 
the tremolo flags without beams. In no case is the tremolo beam adjusted to 
have the same slope as the beam.

Gardner Read's "Music Notation" also shows an example on p.393 with the 
tremolo slashed NOT adjusted with the beam.

Neither has Kurt Stone's "Music Notation in the Twentieth Century" (see 
pp.148ff).

So, I couldn't find any reference that the tremolo slashes should be aligned 
with the beam. To the contrary, all standard notation reference use the same 
slope as on notes without a beam.

Cheers,
Reinhold

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org