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Re: Polyphony
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Tomas Valusek |
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Re: Polyphony |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:21:26 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) |
Hello,
Mats Bengtsson napsal(a):
Musically, this means that two separate music voices merge
into a single chord. Obviously, the main hackers behind LilyPond don't
think that this makes sense, musically.
Well, there are in fact two kinds of polyphony - melodic and harmonic.
Consider this little example:
%Begin code
\version "2.8.1"
\relative c'
<<
{ e1 } \\ { s2 c }
>>
%End code
What does it sa? Are there two melodies like this?
%Begin code
%Melodic approach
\version "2.8.1"
<<
\new Staff \relative c' {
e1
}
\new Staff \relative c' {
r2 c
}
>>
%End code
Or are there just two chords with one tied note, like this?
%Begin code
%Harmonic approach
\version "2.8.1"
\relative c'
{ e2 ~ <e c> }
%End code
It seems that LilyPond natively supports only the melodic approach,
while in piano music the harmonic approach is far more common.
Tomas Valusek
Slur collision, Tomasz Bojczuk, 2006/04/13