Re: Appoggiature too fast

[David Kastrup]

mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes:

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024, lily@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
>
>> he says, 'The usual rule of duration for appogiaturas is that they
>> take from the following tone of duple length one half of its value,
>> and two-thirds from one of triple length'.
>
> Current articulate.ly says in code comments that it uses half the main
> note's time for an undotted main note, and one third (not two thirds)
> of the main note's time for a main note with one dot.  There is also a
> code comment saying "From Iain Nicol: appoggiatura timings were out,"
> so it's possible that it has been changed since you first implemented
> it.  In any case, it seems clear the codes is *not* intended to use
> 9/40 of the notated duration, which is what happens after the commit I
> highlighted.

Vocal method from Nicola Vaccai:

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David Kastrup