Eleanor Selfridge-Field and Edmund Correia, Jr.
© 1994 Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities
Reproduced by the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music by permission

Category 4. Ties, Slurs, Beams, and Stems

Slurs Type 2. Very high slurs.

Slurs that are drawn over the entire grand staff require considerable control. Ex. #19 provides an illustration.

This example is also notable for its discontinuous ties and its diagonally oriented decrescendo.

© 1992 David Chaitkin.

Ex. #19. David Chaitkin: "Prelude." This illustration was produced by Claire Dolan with Finale. It appeared in Computing in Musicology 9 (1994), 194.

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