Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

[Simon Albrecht]

On 29.11.2015 22:45, Alberto Simões wrote:
> Hell, Simon
>
> On 23/11/15 00:03, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > The last measure of the Introduction actually has only two quarters (the
> > half note isn’t dotted), to be complemented by the immediately following
> > upbeat for Valse 1.
>
> I need your help with this. Although I got it working for the upper 
> voice, it is failing for the lower voice:
>
> I am using: R1*1/2
> And getting:
>
> intro.ly:97:5: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/2
>   |
>     R1*1/2 \bar "|."
>
> Of course the upper measure is  gis2  and it doesn't complain there.

Full-bar rests automatically perform a barcheck at their beginning and 
at their close. The latter obviously fails here, because the rest 
doesn’t span an entire bar. So you should be using r2 here.

> > It seems that you intentionally replaced -! by -. in Valse 1, however
> > the original uses them distinctly and I’d stick with that.
>
> Thanks for the note. I didn't really notice (and in fact I am not sure 
> what that means, musically speaking, but I will find that out)

Describing the difference between these in performing is a difficult 
task, but they are usually used distinctively and so we should allow 
performers to make sense of this distinction instead of hiding it away – 
regardless of what it actually means.

> > The hairpins in Valse 4 should stop at the third beat, I think.
>
> Not sure what you mean with that one.

in a nutshell:
s2\> s4\!
instead of
s2.\> s\!

And I have yet another suggestion: It works as is, but LilyPond would 
have more freedom to make good linebreaks if you insert \bar "" at 
appropriate places in the introduction’s cadenza.

Yours, Simon