[James O'Briant:]
(c) [quoting from Daniel Dorff from here onwards:]
Richard Wernick likes indicating a 5-beat note by putting a rhythmic dot *before and after* a whole note, and so on for smaller values,
I would definitely think this should be honoured. In fact, I once
experimented with using a dash after a note to indicate adding one quarter of
the note's value, instead of half, and feel that this would be far more readable
in quintuple time than using ties all the time. (I don't often use quintuple
time, so I never had to decide whether to continue using this regularly.)
Another innovation of this sort might consist of something to add half of
the value of an already dotted note, so that, for instance, you could have a
single note modified in this way to occupy the full duration of a 9/8 bar -
although I never got as far as inventing a symbol and *doing* it. (I'm
essentially somewhat conservative, and might consider such things, but have to
gird myself a bit to actually do them.)
You don't have to invent a note to fill up a bar of odd time greater than 4/4; it already exists - the barred whole note |O| kind of like that.
More to the point would be finding a single note to fill up, say, 9 beats of a 10/8 bar. I keep falling all over myself to make sure things turn out legibly in odd (especially long) time sigs. Our entire notation system is geared so strongly to diatonic harmonies and non-syncopated, regular rhythms that it gets rather complicated to notate something that my six-year old can play back easily after one listening.
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