Re: How can we obtain ties across voices in parallel music?

[Abraham Lee]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Jacques Menu <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello folks,

I’d like to obtain the tie between the cis’s in beat 1 and 2 in the attached, from a version of BWV 508 (3/4).

The best I could find is:

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\version "2.18.2"

{

\clef "treble" \key b \major \time 3/4

 

…

\tieDown

<cis ~ ais fis>4 )

<<

  {fis8 --}

  {\hideNotes cis8 \unHideNotes}

>>

fis8 ( [ ais fis ] |

}

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Problem: \hideNotes applies to fis8 too, leading to the following, in which the tie applies to ais’s and not cis’s by the way:

Thanks for your help!

JM

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Jacques Menu
Ch. de la Pierre 12
1023 Crissier

mailto:address@hidden

Jacques,

You are really close. The way that I do it is to use explicit parallel voices like this:

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\version "2.18.2"

pianoRH = \relative c {
  \clef treble
  \key b \major
  \time 3/4
  
  \new Voice {
    \voiceOne
    <<
      { 
        <fis ais cis>4 fis'8\noBeam fis ais fis
      }
      \new Voice {
        \voiceTwo
        \once \hideNotes <fis, ais cis ~ >4 <ais cis>4 q
      }
    >>
  }
}

{ \pianoRH }

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I have yet to run into a problem with this approach. Actually, this kind of syntax solves a lot of other problems, too.

HTH,

Abraham