Re: doc work

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 15. August 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hi all,
>
> > I would have to go home and look into my
> > music engraving handbook to verify your claims.
>
> "Beaming of notes associated with a lyric now follows standard
> notational practice. (Traditional practice, now obsolete, was to use
> flags for eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc. Beams were used only
> for melismas.)"
>      — The Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Gerou & Lusk), pg.
> 186

Still, all new editions of classical music published by the big German 
publishers like Bärenreiter, Carus, Edition Peters, etc. still use 
that "obsolete practice"...

Cheers,
Reinhold
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