Of course you use a dotted quarter in 6/8 and 9/8 etc as the primary beat. My wording was unclear. What I meant to say is that you almost never use the dotted note value of the time signature's beat value itself as the primary pulse or beat by which you will calculate the lengths of all the other notes in the time signature's measure.
Example: under normal circumstances, in 3/8 the conductor would not use a dotted eighth as the beat and count the measures in two. In 3/4 you would not count in two dotted quarter notes. Of course there will be situations where this is mixed, but I simply stated this as a reason for calling 3/8 "simple meter." Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT - 3/8 time sig > [Liudas Motekaitis:] > > >... you almost never use a dotted note as a beat... > > Not even in 6/8 or 9/8 or 12/8? > Surely the beat there is a dotted note? Or have I misinterpreted your > comment, Liudas? > > Regards, > Michael Edwards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
