Cadenza91 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) Are the slur/directions in the following bar and a half problematic? I felt that an exception needed to be made with the two slurs for better visibility, though I'm not sure whether or not I should make an exception for the ties. Although they're facing the right direction, I think it looks a little odd since the upper voice is in the relatively lower register while the lower is higher. Edit: for some reason, I'm unable to add my image to the 'My Media' attachments, so here is a link. http://i.imgur.com/iHamaRR.jpg Edited July 17, 2013 by Cadenza91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pateceramics Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/notation.pdf See pages 10 and 11. The style guide to all things mundanely notational... :) I guess the real question is if this sort of issue is coming up, should those two voices be sharing a staff and should the upper voice be the upper voice... If it's only a problem for a few bars, could you split them out to two independent staffs for a line and then bring them back together with little / and \ symbols to keep it clear what's happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadenza91 Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/notation.pdf See pages 10 and 11. The style guide to all things mundanely notational... :) I guess the real question is if this sort of issue is coming up, should those two voices be sharing a staff and should the upper voice be the upper voice... If it's only a problem for a few bars, could you split them out to two independent staffs for a line and then bring them back together with little / and \ symbols to keep it clear what's happening? I'm unsure yet if it's actually a real issue, but I figured I would double check. Most of the piece is like this save for a few spots here and there (which absolutely need extra staves). I considered the 2-stave idea, but I think that having both voices in the same stave makes it easier to see how the polyrhythms line up and is more economic with the space. I understand that single-stave piano music in this style is atypical but so far, it seems that I've managed to get everything to fit snugly, though as you can see, I'm on the fence with what is traditionally proper and what is visually effective (though possibly misleading). Edited July 17, 2013 by Cadenza91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.fseventsd Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 that's a pretty nice looking slur leave it where it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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