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Gradus GE-195 · cite this code — it is permanent. Rule id shared-stave-beam-lattice-threshold
Two voices sharing a stave, both running beamed (sub-quarter) notes with opposing stems, in a close enough tessitura and for long enough, produce a visual lattice where the upper voice's beam and the lower voice's beam interleave through the middle of the staff — a collision that can occur even with ZERO simultaneous pitch crossings, because it is a product of the two voices' PITCH RANGES over a stretch of time, not their pitch order at any one instant.
Stone, Music Notation in the 20th Century, on independent-voice engraving and the case for one stave per part.
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Gradus GE-195 — Beamed-note lattice on a shared stave: diatonic (not chromatic) distance with a persistence gate. Gradus Engraving Rulebook v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/engraving/rule/shared-stave-beam-lattice-threshold
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