Re: Unusual beaming for piano music

[Jeffery Shivers]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Andrew Bernard
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

I would start to guess something like.. just faking it with
simultaneous overlapping beams. But I've given up in the past on doing
this exact thing more than once. I can't recall ever spending the time
to work it out. Are the beams for the subdivisions (beyond quavers)
always at least on one side or the other - and never both?

Best,
Jeffery
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