Re: Tie and beam across line break

[Ralph Palmer]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:19 AM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Ralph,

On May 28, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Ralph Palmer <address@hidden> wrote:

Greetings -

I'm running LY 2.16.2 through Frescobaldi 2.0.10 under Win 7 Sp1.

I'm having trouble getting beams and ties to cross line breaks. Beams and ties both cross regular bar lines nicely. I've tried searching the Snippet Repository with as many search terms as I could come up with, but I can't find anything to get either ties or beams to cross line breaks. 

For beams, check out this snippet:

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/rhythms#rhythms-beams-across-line-breaks

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Tim McNamara 

IMHO beams should never cross bar lines- it looks bad to my eyes and is confusing for the musician.  YMMV on that, of course.

Beaming across barlines is very useful for conveying patterns that contradict the prevailing meter.  It's often seen in polymetric music where the composer has opted to notate the entire ensemble with a common meter, for reasons of practicality.

--David

Wow! That was quick. Thanks to the three of you. The broken beams were not my choice. Luckily, I could have gotten away without breaking them in one or two of the short scores I'm working on, but not breaking the beams makes the spacing crowded, is not what the composer wished (to the best of my knowledge), and might not be possible in subsequent short scores (too many bars in a row with beams across the bar lines).

Do I need to resort to slurs and laissez-vibrer in order to get the ties across the break?

Thanks again,

Ralph

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Ralph Palmer
Brattleboro, VT
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