Re: Identifying to which note a grace note is attached

Hi Joe,

Thankyou for that clarification which is indeed a great help.

Best regards
Simon

On 20/09/2017 19:09, Joe Berkovitz wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> In both notated music and in MusicXML, grace notes and appoggiaturas 
> are not "attached" to notes that follow them (although ties or slurs 
> could provide such connections, as they do in non-grace-note cases). 
> They simply precede the following notes, in their order of occurrence 
> on the page or in a document.
>
> If an application has a notion of attachment, that's up to the 
> application. MusicXML doesn't need to encode attachment, because music 
> notation doesn't have an inherent notion of such attachment.
>
> That second scenario (grace note following normal note at the end of a 
> measure) is not seen in conventional notated music. Although one could 
> write it and encode it, its interpretation would be unclear to a 
> performer. It's not so much that the layout is correct or incorrect, 
> as that the conventional interpretation of a grace note or 
> appoggiatura is dependent on some normal note that follows it in the 
> same measure.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> .            .       .    .  . ...Joe
>
> Joe Berkovitz
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> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Simon Giddings 
> <mr.s.giddings@gmail.com <mailto:mr.s.giddings@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Good afternoon,
>
>     Firstly, my comprehension of music notation is not extensive, so
>     please forgive me if I make any clearly wrong assumptions.
>
>     When using notation software, we can add a grace note or
>     appoggiatura to either the start of a note or after it.
>     At this point, we can decide to link the notes with a tie, a slur
>     or nothing as in this manner.
>
>
>     I have two questions :
>
>      1. In MusicXML, how can I detect which to note the grace note is
>         attached since there is no tie or slur ?
>      2. Is this layout correct specifically for the second scenario ?
>
>     Best regards
>     Simon Giddings
>
>