3 note tremolos?
I ran across an unusual tremolo written by Bartok that looks like this:
Of course I had to see if MS could do this. I put the 2 note tremolo on the middle note, then on the first note and ended up with this:
Needles to say, This is not what I expected. It will take some work to make it look like that using staff text and special characters; and then even more work to make it sound right - but I'm up to the challenge.
The only thing I don't understand is why the engraver put the dots after the notes when this is in 3/4 time. I thought that they might be tuplets, but no tuplet markings exist on the score for the tremolos.
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I don't know an easy way to get it to sound "correct" but then I don't really know how it is intended to sound. Does the attached come close visually?
BarmyBartok.mscz
In reply to I don't know an easy way to by underquark
That looks very good, but inconsistent with the rest of the tremolos in MS, so it would probably confuse someone looking at the entire score. As far as the sound, I'm thinking triplet running 32nd notes low Eb, Bb, high Eb, low Eb etc. This is one harp on each line, so there is nothing to lead me to believe the Bb should be played in both directions.
Another go. As for it being "inconsistent", since when did one expect consistency from Bartok?
In reply to Another go. As for it being by underquark
The third beat looks much better. I'm not concerned about Bartok being consistent, I'm worried about notation being consistent. The first stab at tremolos just looked like 32nd notes. Here is what I came up with, and it plays the way I described.
I squished together 32nd note triplets and unhid the beams like you did in this try.
In reply to The third beat looks much by mike320
Can you attach the MS file? I'd like to hear what it sounds like.
In reply to Can you attach the MS file? by underquark
I'm not going to upload the entire score right now, or even a few measures since there are 50 staffs, but here's the harp.
It's a very strange sound. The dynamic on it is pp behind the rest of the Opera, which is pp and thinly orchestrated in this section with little dialogue.