Re: chords w/ornaments

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:55:08 +0200
Simon Bailey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:50, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > The question was not how you do it in Lilypond but
> > how you do it as a performing musician. David's point 
> > is that it doesn't make sense to apply an ornament to 
> > a chord.
> 
> certain ornaments wouldn't make sense either on a chord or in a chord --
> a trill for example:
> 
> <c1\trill a e,> or <c1 a e,>\trill -- neither makes sense...

It makes sense to me... I'd play:
c16 d c d c d c d
a1
e,1

(well, I wouldn't hold the bottom e on the cello, but you get the idea)

> i can understand that some articulations would be pointless in a chord
> context from a performing point of view, but some, however, are
> regularly used.

I don't think that it's too confusing for a composer to write <c1\fermata a e>
instead of <c1 a e>\fermata, but it could become messy for a programmer
to make LilyPond interpret <chord>\fermata.  In this case I'd say that since
it's not (very) broken, don't fix it.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham