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Theoretically Correct vs Practical Notation
The top version is more correct 100% of the time when written in 4/4.
In the bottom version, I see a few issues that could present themselves:
In the first measure, two consecutive quarter notes that ...
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Eliminate ties via additive meter?
Firstly, it would really help if you sort out what the various voices in the bass clef are doing, (this is where the "noise" is coming from). For piano it's not really possible to re-...
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How does one maintain voice integrity when longer and shorter notes of the same pitch occur in two voices
One of the things my first piano teacher taught me when looking at Bach was to isolate the voices and play the parts by themselves to get to know how the individual lines sounded like, not just their ...
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Theoretically Correct vs Practical Notation
In order to most clearly communicate a 3+3+2 feel, the "intuitive" right hand would need adjustment:
Beam the first three notes (dotted eighth, sixteenth, eighth) together;
Split the ...
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How does one maintain voice integrity when longer and shorter notes of the same pitch occur in two voices
The short, general answer
All things (all voices) being equal, solution #1 is the correct technical approach. The shorter note should interrupt the longer one, but then continue to be held (allowing ...
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Theoretically Correct vs Practical Notation
The top one is correct, as @Richard answered. A little more information on the possibility of 3+3+2 being notated in 8/8 is this:
If this is a "pop" piece, which it sort of feels like to ...
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Music Notation (in Musescore) - Ties or Separate Voices?
Is it technically correct or incorrect to express one voice using two?
No it does not really matter technically, either works.
Is one more readable than another?
They both are readable, and in my ...
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Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement tied notes
It seems that you may be conflating phrasing slurs with ties.
Ties and slurs are notated similarly, but the context determines what is intended. Ties in this style will only ever connect two of the ...
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Two ties in a row
You occasionally see this sort of thing in ensemble music where the chord changes but one instrument holds the same note. Unnecessary, but might add just a LITTLE useful information. This, for ...
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Tie instead of a Rest in Keyboard Staff notation
The tie suggests to play and hold the Dm chord for 8 beats. If there was a rest in the second bar, then the chord would only be held for 4 beats.
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Help with note grouping in 6/4 time
In both cases showing the 4th beat with an imaginary bar line is the way to go. You did it at times but not consistently. The beamed 8ths look strange with the ties. If you want to use ties like in ...
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Unmatched pairs for LilyPond ties and slurs
Turns out Lilypond has a command to add tied notes that may be unmatched due to codas or repeat signs:
If you follow the tied note that is other wise unable to be connected with the tie-initiator ...
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Legato & Fermata notation on tied notes
The textbook Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice by Gardner Read answers your first question as follows:
When slurs are placed over a passage that ends in a tied note, the slur sign should ...
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Two ties in a row
Both notations are exactly equivalent, so I see no reason for the conclusion to play something differently just because notation is different.
I can only guess, that in the next bar more changes ...
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Music Notation (in Musescore) - Ties or Separate Voices?
Ankit got it right, I would only like to add another possibility.
For me (as a classical guitarist), putting it into two voices would be the way to go. I would also typeset the G with stem up and the ...
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Prevent collision/overlap of ties in Lilypond
I don't know if this is expected output or not. At any rate, you can override the default placement using the explicit direction specifiers ^ and _. In this case, you need to write the ~ on each note ...
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Eliminate ties via additive meter?
'Is it reasonable to use a complex time signature..? - No. That one works well for pieces that actually use complex timing. This one doesn't. It's firmly in 4/4, albeit with some syncopation. It's ...
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Slur or tie rule for chords in piano
You'll notice that ties are drawn much more closely to the note heads. There is no tie in the red circle, but there is in the blue one.
For multiple notes to be tied, for each note tied a separate ...
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Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) - Kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff), tie or slur?
It's definitely a slur from the A to the G♮, and for at least a few reasons:
The beginning of this slur/tie is above the initial E. Engravers make mistakes, but that's a hard mistake to ...
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What does laissez vibrer mean on a wind instrument?
Was the music in a jazz style? What we have here, I think, is a 'fall'. An instruction to fall off the pitch at the end of a note.
Here are some more 'jazz articulations' from http://www.timusic....
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Help with note grouping in 6/4 time
Neither of your solutions is optimal although the second one is better.
In 6/4 the middle of the bar (i.e. between the third and fourth quarter) should be visible. So you should take your second ...
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Have tie extend past end of music in lilypond
Add an invisible measure with an e note in it to do the tie appear.
\relative c, {
\clef F \key e \major
\partial 8 { e8 ~ }
\repeat volta 2 {
e8 g e4 gis8 b b4 |
...
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Is a tie needed into a second-time bar?
What you've written is fine.
You might sometimes be able to side-step the problem by making the 1st and 2nd time bars each two bars long.
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Eliminate ties via additive meter?
You can eliminate ties with additive meter, but your sheet music readers may prefer to see the more conventional meter and the ties that come along with it.
A music website I occasionally contribute ...
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What does laissez vibrer mean on a wind instrument?
I have no experience with reed instruments, but on wind instruments like a flute you can end a note two ways: 1. by stopping to blow / slightly opening your lips vs 2. by letting your tongue stop the ...
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Ties over some notes in beamed group, and stems in both directions
They are not ties. They are slurs. It just means play then legato. Note that the bottom notes are also held longer, suggesting a melody in the bass.
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Figured bass and ties
The tie is irrelevant to understanding the notation. If you have a figure part way through the duration of a long note, you play the new chord but you don't repeat the bass note.
That is very a ...
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Figured bass and ties
Your first guesses are correct: you hold the C in the bass between measure 1 and 2, and from measure 2 to measure 3, the C in the bass is held over, and the chord remains the same, C, F, Ab. Btw- "Es" ...
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