Re: Unusual beaming for piano music

[Thomas Morley]

2017-03-24 2:13 GMT+01:00 Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>:

Hi All,

 

I have an unusual beaming situation in the piano work I am setting. The composer I work with is fussy (very) about his visual gestures in notation and it is incumbent on me to reproduce the beaming seen in the attached image. The issue I am having difficulty with is where the beam for the spanned group goes from up to down with no break – at the point where the “treble^8” clef is introduced. Are there any smart solutions to such a situation?

 

I can ask to have this notated differently, but it would go against various large scale structural patterns in the music. [Yes, we know it does not follow engraving rules 😊]  So a technical lilypond solution would be great.

 

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I've a hard time understanding what the composer wants to tell me (the probable performer) at this point. For me it looks the dis has two different duration-indications at the same stem: two beams at top and three more below.

The only way to make sense of it would to assume a polyphonic situation.

This idea came me after 10 minutes of thinking about it...

Now I give up, obviously I'm not the man for such things, at the end of a hard weeks work.

Sorry to say, I usually throw away scores where the composer obfuscates things.

Nevertheless, a hint (no idea whether it will be really helpful):

{
    b'16^[
    \once \override Stem.beaming = #(cons (list 0  1) (list 0))
    g''16
    \once \override Stem.beaming = #(cons (list 0  1) (list 3 4 5))
    dis'16
    fis''32]
}

Cheers,

  Harm