Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 21:41
John,
The slant in bar 72 of your version is the least objectionable imv. My main issue, however, is the lack of stems on some of those 16th notes. In fact, although I don't like the more drastic slants of the original, I still prefer it overall since there is a least a little bit of a stem on the bass notes.
But I understand the musical reason for you wanting to use the centered beam, and this is obviously one of those situations where you have to choose between notating the musical intent or making it pretty and easy to read.
Just for my own curiosity, if I myself were doing this and had to use a centered beam for this excerpt, for bar 67 I might do something like the first bar in the example below. There is at least the small sense of a stem there where the notehead doesn't sidle up to the beam.
Just spitballing here, but I wonder if something like the second example might have potential for these types of situations. Maybe, maybe not. Just thinking out loud.
The slant in bar 72 of your version is the least objectionable imv. My main issue, however, is the lack of stems on some of those 16th notes. In fact, although I don't like the more drastic slants of the original, I still prefer it overall since there is a least a little bit of a stem on the bass notes.
But I understand the musical reason for you wanting to use the centered beam, and this is obviously one of those situations where you have to choose between notating the musical intent or making it pretty and easy to read.
Just for my own curiosity, if I myself were doing this and had to use a centered beam for this excerpt, for bar 67 I might do something like the first bar in the example below. There is at least the small sense of a stem there where the notehead doesn't sidle up to the beam.
Just spitballing here, but I wonder if something like the second example might have potential for these types of situations. Maybe, maybe not. Just thinking out loud.