If, from that selection, we activate Note Input (by pressing Enter or Shift+N),… This is convenient for the next step, because selecting will thus also set Dorico’s Note Input controls (the left panel in Write Mode) to that overall duration in the following example, it would be a dotted half note. In Write mode, when we select one of the tie chains, Dorico is aware of its complete duration (not just a single tie chain segment’s, as in other programs).
Let’s assume that the music has been put in already and now appears with ties, as shown above. (Note: at the end of this post a Lua script that automates the necessary steps is provided for download.) In combination with the slightly unusual tuplet ratio of 1:1 as well as the quite usual appearance options available, we can employ the following neat trick. …Dorico can span any tuplet over a barline. Here is what it looks like, using as an example the duo from the Agnus Dei section of Josquin des Prez’s Missa de Beata Virgine (arrows denote where modern bar notation would require breaking up a longer single value into tied-together notes): Anyone feeling tempted to point out that “with LilyPond that has been possible for years!” should know that they will be punished by having to copy this easy example on a chalkboard one hundred times.ĭorico, like its competition, does not have a dedicated feature to support this special use case and will break up into a tie chain any note spilling over a bar boundary: And a modern transcription shouldn’t, either, even if notes are held from one “bar” into the next.
#LILYPOND OVERRIDE BARLINE SOFTWARE#
That in itself is no challenge for any sophisticated score writing software what is, though, is that convention also calls for preserving an idiosyncrasy that might not be obvious at first glance - mensural notation does not contain ties anywhere. This is why modern engravings of ancient vocal music are today usually prepared with (retroactively added) barlines positioned not on, but between the staves. But today‘s musicians do not want to dispense with them, being that barlines are, like, really convenient in rehearsal, you know. Notation of that time - so-called mensural notation - does not know barlines (or bars, for that matter). So the thought of seeing more tuplets over barlines in the near future just because they are cool and can now easily be done is not something that fills me with joy.īut recently it occurred to me that there is another application of this feature - probably not exactly as intended, but also not a genuine hack, technically - which makes it possible, with an easy tweak, to properly render certain Renaissance notations that have been frustratingly hard to achieve with other software. The reason for my subdued enthusiasm is that, as an editor, I rarely find barline-spanning tuplets to be notational best practice, given that usually the same material can be re-notated in much more conventional ways, thereby improving the readability of the underlying meaning without impairing it. In our initial Dorico review I was somewhat dismissive towards an undoubtedly profound feature when I wrote:įor better or worse, tuplets can cross bar lines easily.
0 kommentar(er)
