Re: Plans for docs, snippets and requests

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:

> I understand, but c:8.8 doesn't make any sense to me.  The only time I
> can see that it makes sense to have a repeated note is when there's an
> explicit string assignment to the note so that the note will be placed
> on multiple strings.  In standard musical notation I don't think you'd
> double up the note head;

Oh yes, you would.  The following is from a four-part fugue for violin
(and the lute would certainly be used for that kind of music as well),
and the second to last note in the bar would most certainly be sounded
on both G and D string, and most certainly you would spell that out
explicitly.

While I agree that in most cases where you have multiple notes on a
string instrument, you would not be writing chords but rather voices as
input, I have my doubts that one should restrict this in this manner.

In particular when using open tunings, it is quite feasible to play some
sparsely fingered chords on higher frets and have double occurences of
notes in chords.

That's one of the points of open tunings, after all.

-- 
David Kastrup