Re: Notes or chords sustained with a pedal

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi Robin, 

Thanks for your critical comment.
I can see your point, but personally I am not very disturbed with or hindered 
by the result of my amateurish hack.
I tried several other hacks, for example coupling the notes with real ties, but 
I found the result extremely ugly. 

And finally I will be the only one who will use this transcription. I would 
have liked it to be perfect and that is why I posted my question on the 
LilyPond mailing-list.
The expert solutions that were proposed didn’t work in my score, no idea why 
not. 

Best regards.

Robert

> On 21 Dec 2019, at 17:38, Robin Bannister <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Robert Blackstone wrote:
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> > I’m presently transcribing some piano-scores in which schords,
> > sustained with a pedal are notated in a way had not seen before
> > (see screenshot).
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> Referring to that original screenshot, surely there is no pedal here. The 
> pedal would blur what the right hand is doing.
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> This is much more likely laissezvibrer asking for the lefthand fifth to be 
> allowed to resonate to the sounds produced by the right hand.
> It wants the keys kept pressed even when the initial pp may have decayed to 
> pppp.
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> > Anyway, I found something that gave me a result, not quite identical
> > to what I wanted to get, but good enough for me and probably
> > sufficiently clear for a pianist. See the attached screenshot.
> 
> That wouldn't be good enough for me.
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> In sightreading mode I would glimpse that in the lefthand there is nothing at 
> the start of the second measure, and so would release the fifth sooner than 
> is intended.
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> In sightreading mode I would ignore the middle of the second measure.
> It is only in the context of this thread that I can guess what is meant.
> 
> I think there should be something tie-like (complete or open) crossing from 
> the first measure to the second.
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> Cheers,
> Robin
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