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Gradus GE-296 · cite this code — it is permanent. Rule id shared-notehead-for-true-unison-across-two-voices
When two voices sharing a stave land on identical pitch for identical duration at the identical position, the traditional engraved convention is a single notehead with stems drawn in both directions, not two independent overlapping noteheads.
Two voices sharing a stave (SATB or two-voice stacked layout) with identical pitch+duration at the same slice index rendered as two overlapping StaveNote objects.
Gould, Behind Bars, Divisi and unaccompanied unisons (~, single-notehead-double-stem convention, but Gould also explicitly notes the double-notehead alternative is now common and arguably clearer); Ross gives the same single-notehead guidance for chorale-style unisons.
This rule needs the notated content and the rendered result together — the score says what should happen, the page says whether it did.
Gradus GE-296 — Two voices coinciding in pitch and duration on a shared stave should share one notehead (or Gradus should deliberately choose the double-notehead alternative). Gradus Engraving Rulebook v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/engraving/rule/shared-notehead-for-true-unison-across-two-voices
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