Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
To: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)


On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely

> Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You 
> definitely need to make an editorial remark…
> Cheek aside, I think they are phrasing slurs and make sense as such.

> Yours, Simon

I would definitely argue against removing the slurs from the vocal part. 
Slurs serve two purposes: to show melisma and to show phrasing.  In terms of 
the lilypond input, they're coded differently; in terms of the image in the 
score, they look the same.

Have a look at some of Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel" for use of this 
sort of phrasing: "The Roadside Fire" is a good example.

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Phil Holmes