Re: shortened flags affair, part 5 - length of notes extending far from staff

[Phil Holmes]



Gardner Read does not deal much with beam placement.  Kurt Stone says that the beam in this case should straddle the middle line, which Lily does (see image).  He says that for double and multiple beams, stems are usually lengthened by half a space for each additional beam, but when 3 or more beams are used there is no rigid rule and a balance has to be struck between being too close to the note head and being too long.  I actually think Lily does a pretty good job here.

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Phil Holmes

 

 

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From: Janek Warchoł

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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:11 PM

Subject: shortened flags affair,part 5 - length of notes extending far from staff

Hi,

next thing is to decide what the output of { c32 c[ c] c64 c[ c] } should be.

Currently the stems of unbeamed notes are lenghtened to middle line only ("current output.png"). 

In my opinion this looks weird, i'd suggest something like "suggested output.png".

However, this is only my personal opinion.

What do engraving books say about it? Or maybe do you recall some examples?

(i suppose randomly searching score databases like imslp.org has a little chance of success in reasonable time...)

cheers,

Janek

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