Re: Noteheads - harmonic

[Mats Bengtsson]

Forwarded to lilypond-devel as a feature request!
This should be an optional feature, since the current
white head is used for harmonics of all note durations
in violin music, for example.

    /Mats

Bernard Hurley wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:06 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > I've never seen harmonics notated with black note heads,
> > could you mention some examples where it's used?
> >
> >   /Mats
>
> This is actually quite a common way to notate harmonics in Classical
> Guitar, together with  a number to indicate which harmonic it is. The
> reason is that if the harmonic is part of a chord, you would often have
> to notate the music on two staffs if you used the normal notation. For
> instance Julian Bream's arrangement of the "Watchman's Song" from
> Grieg's "Three Lyric Pieces. Op 12"  has several of these (including
> three sequences of seven in a row).
>
> Bernard

Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I could not find a "black" harmonic notehead for eights and quarter
> notes in the feta font, only "noteheads-0harmonic". Shouldn't it be
> there or did I miss something?
> In the moment I am using "neomensural" with size and stem-offset
> adjustments and it looks o.k., but...
>
> Thomas

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