On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:52 PM, Crystal Premo wrote:
No, no, no -- please do not *ever* do this. This is an older method of indicating tempo changes, but it is the exact opposite of the modern convention. It's also intrinsically confusing, which is no doubt why it's not used anymore. If you want the quarter notes in cut time to be twice as fast as the quarter notes in 4/4, this is indicated by "q = h" with the "=" centered over the barline. The old value (in this case, a quarter note) appears visually above the bar before the change, and the new value (in this case, a half note) appears above the bar after the change. I think Andrew Stiller even recommends the use of arrows to make this transisiton even more clear, i.e. " <-- q = h -->"It seems more logical that you would put h=q, to indicate that in the new time signature, the half note now has the duration of a quarter note.No, they don't. Given no other indication to the contrary, quarter notes equal quarter notes. If you want them to go twice as fast you need to place an indicator, usually in the manner of q=h where the q would be an actual quarter note and the h would be a half note. <<
- Darcy
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