Re: triple stop warnings

[Philip Potter]

2009/12/11 Owain Sutton <address@hidden>:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:20 +0000, Philip Potter wrote:
>> 2009/12/11 Jay Anderson <address@hidden>:
>> > I've done triple-stops like this in the past:
>> > << c4 <g' e'>2.\fermata >>
>> >
>> > I'd prefer to do the triple-stop something more like this to avoid 
>> > warnings:
>> > <\tweak #'duration-log #2 \tweak #'dot-count #0 c g' e'>2.\fermata |
>> >
>> > Unfortunately I can't make the dot disappear easily (the dot-count
>> > thing I was trying doesn't work). I could probably write a function to
>> > remove the dot for this case (which might not be a bad idea:
>> > \tripleStop <c g' e'>2.\fermata), but if there's a simple tweak to get
>> > rid of the dot I'd be interested to know. Does this fall under the
>> > recent \tweak nested properties changes? Thanks.
>>
>> Is this notation something you've seen other music producers use? It
>> sounds like you want a chord with a crotchet at the bottom and two
>> fermata'd minims at the top; and you want to ignore the warning about
>> the lower crotchet not being the same length as the minims. I'm not
>> convinced that this is the best way to do what you want, but I'm not a
>> string player so I'm not familiar with string music conventions.
>
>
> This kind of thing is perfectly normal notation, as an explicit
> instruction to arpeggiate a chord in a certain way - off-hand, examples
> I can think of are in the last movement of Tchaik 5, and various points
> in the Stravinsky violin concerto.

Do you have a graphical example? I still can't picture it, and it
would help greatly to understand exactly what is wanted.

Phil