Timeline for Tied notes that could be dotted

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Jul 22 at 19:53	comment	added	supercat		@Athanasius: The way I like to look at is that in 4/4, a half note with anything in front of or after it is going to cross the mid-bar boundary, as is any dotted half note. If a note is aligned as coarsely as it could possibly be given the qualitative presence of stuff before and/or after it, there's no need to add extra clutter showing how it crosses the midbar.
Jul 20 at 19:07	comment	added	Athanasius		Emphasis on simple syncopations. I'd say this particular example lies in a very small class where there's some reasonable debate about brevity vs. excessive clarity (or "fussiness" as you say). A half or dotted quarter on the second beat of a 4/4 and maybe a quarter that spans the two middle-eighths of a bar are about the only syncopations simple enough to be parsed quickly. Most music fundamentals textbooks would still likely agree that anything involving sixteenths (or smaller note values) or more complex syncopations should still show the mid-point of a 4/4 bar with ties as necessary.
Jul 20 at 15:36	history	answered	Laurence	CC BY-SA 4.0