Closed craigsapp closed 2 years ago
I'm wondering what should happen in chords without stem. Should all noteheads of different sizes stay left aligned, or should the be centered? @craigsapp maybe you could provide some examples from classic prints?
Here is an example from Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo, Sz.117 https://imslp.org/wiki/Sonata_for_Violin_Solo,_Sz.117_(Bart%C3%B3k,_B%C3%A9la)
Page 13 of https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/e/e6/IMSLP762149-PMLP980920-Barto-k_-_Violin_Sonata.pdf
It looks centered to me, but it is almost left justified:
I think the goal they typesetter was trying to achieve was to align the diamond note with the top of the ellipse whole in the whole note:
So in a sense it is centered, but how it is done makes it closer to left justified.
Boosey & Hawkes edition:
https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/a/ab/IMSLP609968-PMLP980920-Sonate_solo.pdf
This one is intended to be centered on the widths of the notes:
I do not have any digital scores with this case (currently 475 artificial harmonics notes), mostly from this Opus:
Wieniawski, Henryk: L'école moderne : etudes-caprices pour violon seul , op. 10 https://polona.pl/item/l-ecole-moderne-etudes-caprices-pour-violon-seul-op-10,MTE2OTgzMTMy/25 but have not found a case of harmonics on a whole note yet.
Here is the printed version of the example used here (from the ending measures of the above linked page:
digital encoding: https://verovio.humdrum.org/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.nifc.humdrum.org%2F18xx%3A3822.krn
Diamond shaped noteheads have problems attaching properly to up-stems:
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The problem in this case is that the stem is moved to diamond-shaped notes, but probably the diamond-shaped notes should be moved to the stem so that the regular note attached properly.
When beamed, the opposite problem happens, where the regular notes are attached properly but the diamond-shaped notes do not (for up-stems):
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The problem occurs because diamond shaped notes are smaller than regular noteheads and they are always left-aligned to the space that a regular notehead takes up. However, this needs to be adjusted for upstems. This applies to all non-standard noteheads shapes, and is already implemented for grace notes and cue notes:
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