Have a look at this series of beamed notes.
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Chord|Dur:16th,Dotted|Pos:-10,-7,-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0,7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
They look fine.
Now remove the dot augmentation from the first chord so that the chord is not dotted at all and look what happens to the flags of the second note.
Surely this is a small bug. The flags should not point to the right should they ?
Definitely a bug. It looks as though when the dot is removed, the note head and stem are moved left to compensate but the beams are ignored. If you construct this motif from the ground up, the beams are properly placed.
Hard to say. I would need a full measure of notation
with a time signature to be sure.
Here is where I first spotted it - And just thought that's strange. Didn't think more if it until checking later I spotted a similar set but with the dot augmentation where the flags pointed in what I considered to be correctly. That's when I thought I would post it here for opinion.
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|Bar
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:5,7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam,XNoteSpace=1
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:9|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=8,Beam=End
|Rest|Dur:32nd|Opts:VertOffset=-2000
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:n3,5,7,9|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:#2^,4^,6^,8^|Opts:Stem=Down,StemLength=11
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:#2,4,6,8|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Well, my opinion is that the durations make a mockery of the time signature.
I might suggest this:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:5,7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace,Slur|Pos:5
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:9|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3,5,7,9|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:#2^,4^,6^,8^|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:2,4,6,8|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Maybe they do - but then I'm not sufficiently musically knowledgeable to question what is written on a piece of published music, even if the composer is known for his somewhat strange personal habits and composing and arranging methods.
The problem isn't just the beam direction, it's also the beat count.
Make two staffs, convert Rich's first group of notes to their 32nd note equivalent, and make both staffs have a time signature of 1 quarter note per bar:
Staff 1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|TimeSig|Signature:1/4
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:5^,7^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:5,7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam,XNoteSpace=1
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:9^|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=8,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:9^|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=8,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:9|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=8,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd|Pos:9|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=8,Beam=End
|Rest|Dur:32nd|Opts:VertOffset=-2000
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^,5^,7^,9^|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3,5,7,9|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:#2^,4^,6^,8^|Opts:Stem=Down,StemLength=11
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:2,4,6,8|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Compare that to a new staff, Staff 2:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|TimeSig|Signature:1/4
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Rest|Dur:32nd
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
The bar lines are aligned, which seems to mean NWC counts the first note grouping incorrectly.
Nonsense. Just because a rest has a Vertical Offset of -2000 (IOW, you can't see it) doesn't mean that it doesn't count.
It is yet to be determined that there is a problem with the "beam direction."
Ah yes, apologies - this must have been because I couldn't make that layer measure up according to what was written on the score. That must have been what I did to correct the mistiming.
Thinking about it now, (this is a revision of a piece transcribed long ago), it is probable that the augmented dots were missed in the print since this negates the need for the rest - particularly since there is a similar construct elsewhere, as I said earlier. However, I don't see this would/should alter the direction of the flag. (or should it ?)
It might. Measures get divided into beats. The time signature is a guide, but not the only guide. The measure in question appears to me to be 2+3+3/8. Beamlets should point toward (http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/toward-versus-towards) the
beat, not away from it. A voice can have a different beat structure than another voice (or the accompaniment). This can be especially complex in piano music where all this must fit into one Grand Staff.
Doing this properly requires that a notation system have the tools to impress an arbitrary beaming system onto notes. For NoteWorthy, the tools I suggest would be:
- Beaming a RestChord
- Beams across Bar lines and across other Notation Items
Thank you for the explanation.
Long yearned for items in any case.