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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: N.C. No Chord poll
From:       Amelie Protscher <amy () amelieprotscher ! com>
Date:       2023-05-21 19:09:04
Message-ID: DA2EB41A-24B6-4903-B96D-FE758118A889 () amelieprotscher ! com
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Hi David, all,


> 1. How many Lilyponders think that "N.C." is elegant? 

It's the standard, and that's good enough for me.

> 2. How many guitar teachers instruct their students to keep strumming when they see \
> a rest? 

It depends what's on the staff. If the vocal/melody line is notated, it makes good \
sense to keep strumming in the rests between vocal phrases. Not every rest is a \
break!

It makes sense to suppress N.C. only when the strumming pattern is expressly notated \
on the staff.

> 3. In what genres is it normative for guitars to continue strumming through every \
> rest? 

As noted above, not through any, but through many. 

> 4. If genres exist where it is normative for guitar players to strum throughout a \
> rest, in these genres is it also normative for the other musicians to sustain or \
> fiddle throughout a rest? 

You're obviously confusing a rest within a voice with a general pause. The two are \
not the same.

5-6 are too silly to answer.

> 7. The decision with every LilyPond iteration not to allow a third option, namely, \
> normative blank over the rest, i.e. suppress the "N.C." gimmick -- what are the \
> reasons which LilyPond insiders have found so persuasive over the years? 

Blank should be an option among many. And to my knowledge, it exists.

> 8. How many people feel that LilyPond is being clueless when it comes to making \
> "N.C." the default setting? 

If we take our clues from standard notation conventions, then questioning "N.C." is \
either clueless or willful ignorance of standard practice.

> How can it be otherwise? 

Why should it be?

Just my 2 cents,

Amy

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