Ties across voices

[Shachar Shemesh]

I'm attaching a scan from "The Easy Winners" by Scott Joplin, the way it was published in 1901.

I can't seem to get it to display the way I want.

(The key is des major, 2/4)

My first attempt:

  <<
    {g16 <bes des>8.  ges16 <c ees>8 des16~ | }
    \\
    {g,4               ges8.          f16~   | }
  >>
  <des' f,>8 f16 des ees f aes, a

That doesn't work. The Tie won't tie between the voices and the chord past the voices. Okay, let's put the second measure inside the voices:

  <<
    {g16 <bes des>8.  ges16 <c ees>8 des16~ | des8 f16 des ees f aes, a |}
    \\
    {g4                               ges8.       f16~    | f8 }
  >>

That's is better, in that at least the music being described is the right music. Still, it would be nice if the D and F were combined into a single chord. I guess that's what \partcombine is for, right?

  \partcombine
    \relative {g'16 <bes des>8.  ges16 <c ees>8 des16~ | des8 f16 des ees f aes, a |}
    \relative {g'4                               ges8.      f16~     | f8 }

Well, the good news is that the two notes are combined into a single chord. The bad news is that beaming is now completely off, and we get a "Solo" heading above the end of the measure.

The second problem is easy to solve. We add \set Staff.soloText = #" "

The first one, however, is not so easy. We can try adding explicit beaming, but then the chords disconnect again.

So far, I've done a lot of settings I don't want, just to have the final result look exactly like it did when I started.

Is what I'm trying to do possible?

Thank you for your help,

Shachar

 

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