Re: Tremolo positioning

[Joshua Parmenter]

This is described in Matt Stone's book "Music Notation in the 20th  
Century" (not just 20th century music notation, but the practices of  
notation in the 20th century):

"The tremolo bars should be thinner than beams, and as long or a  
little longer than the width of a note-head
On beamed notes, the tremolo bars usually slant sightly more than the  
beams
Note that the tremolo bars always slant upward, regardless of beam- 
slant"

Mostly, you want to avoid them looking like beams that didn't print  
correctly... so, avoiding tremolos parallel to the beams is of  
importance. When the beams are at the same angle that the tremolos  
would be, then the tremolos are adjusted slightly to avoid this.

I can scan the page tonight if that would help.

Best,

Josh

On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Shouldn't all tremolo lines be at the same angle (usually about 30
> > degrees)?
>
> AFAIK, this isn't true in the presence of beams.  Can you provide a
> counterexample (this is, a small scanned image)?  In that case we have
> to make it configurable.
>
>
>     Werner

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