Re: [Finale] 4/4 to 2/2

[Darcy James Argue]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:58  AM, Tobias Giesen wrote:

I have two measures of four quarter notes in 4/4 time, followed by two
measures of four quarter notes in 2/2 time.

I don't think there's a general rule for this.

Oh yes there is. Unless specified otherwise, the duration of any
particular note value remains constant. Time signature changes have no
effect whatsoever on the duration of notes. Time signatures only group
the notes together, but a different grouping does not change the number
of, say, quarter notes per second.

Is this really the general rule? What about going from, say, 4/4 to 12/8? Without any additional information, I'd assume that the beat duration remained the same, not the quarter note duration.

- Darcy

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