Re: Three voices plus tie in RH - notation best practice?

[Francisco Vila]

2011/10/19 James Harkins <address@hidden>:
> Hi, a "notational correctness" question rather than a lilypond technical 
> question, hope that's okay.
>
> A student brought in some work today, some of which calls for three voices in 
> the right hand of a PianoStaff. Minus expressive marks, the lilypond example 
> below gets the point across, but I wonder if there's a better way? The 
> collision at the beginning of bar 2, between the a4~ a2 tie and the c# in 
> voice 1, seems inevitable but it isn't pretty. (\tieDown looks even worse.)

> So, those of you with a notation reference or two in your library, how would 
> you handle this?

>        \new Voice \relative c'' {
>          \voiceThree
>          a2. a4~ a2

I changed this to

a2. a4~ \shiftOff a2

and the collision is avoided although you obtain a chord and a warning
instead of nice voice independence.
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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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