Re: half-dot

[D Josiah Boothby]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 00:42 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> David Bobroff wrote:
> > I think this music was prepared with either Sibelius or Finale but I'm
> > not sure which (one clue; when slurs/ties pass through time signatures
> > they 'white out' as they cross them).  I used to use Finale but I never
> > encountered this sign before.
> > 
> > Just thought I'd toss this out there.  If it is, or is becoming, a
> > standard notation perhaps LilyPond ought to be able to do it, too.
> 
> I once saw something similar in a score of a Dutch composer. He used 
> dots in 5/8 to be + 1/4, in stead of + 1/2.  It confused the hell out of me.

Joseph Schwantner has a different approach. Writes two dots, one on
either side of the notehead. Takes a little while to get used to it, but
it seems to work. Maybe it goes without saying that the score and parts
are all done by hand.