Re: Changing voice order...

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Changing voice order...



> There are by now two components to my proposal: fading out \voiceOne
> ... \voiceFour since they _never_ correspond to voices 1/2/3/4 in a
> four-voiced context but to voices 1/4/2/3.  And changing the meaning of
> << \\ \\ \\ >>.


I'm concerned by this.  I don't believe I have ever used more than 2 voices 
in choral music: typically the sops/tenors get voice one, and the 
alto/basses get voice two.  If any of these is doubled (e.g. sop1 and sop2) 
then they are shown as chorded notes, still in their normal voice.  If it 
gets more complex than this, then current vocal music almost always resorts 
to a stave per vocal group.  It looks to me like the proposal would end up 
with voiceTwo having upstems.  I am very much against that.  It would mean I 
would have to update a lot of music to make it usable.  I don't use 
concert-ly 'cos I find it a pain on Windows.

Who uses four voices on one stave in vocal setting?

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Phil Holmes