Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

[Hans Aberg]

On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Carl Sorensen wrote:

> ... a question come up about the name for some notation.
>
> In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described as a  
> "dead note"
> that is notated in both tablature and staff notation with a cross- 
> style
> notehead.  This note is played on a muted string, so it gets rhythm  
> but no
> real pitch.
>
> The code has been developed with the name \deadNotesOn,  
> \deadNotesOff, and
> \deadNote.
>
> The same notation appears to be used in woodwinds for what is  
> sometimes
> called a "ghost note".

Blatter, "Instrumentation/Orchestration", p. 79, uses such note-heads  
for saxes and flutes playing "key slap", that is, the sound is  
produced by closing the key heavily, without blowing, and in the  
course damaging the padding :-). They can be both pitched and of  
unspecified pitched. In the latter case, the staff is a single line.

  Hans