I want to transcribe a late Renaissance choral piece for small brass ensemble of advanced beginner to early intermediate level. This piece starts with duple prolation and continues that way for about half the piece, at which oint it changes to triple prolation for about a quarter of the piece, and then returns to duple prolation for the last quarter. The character of the piece suggests that two beats of the duple prolation and three beats of the triple prolation should have the same duration
I'm having a problem, though, where the change from 2/2 to 3/2 happens. The cadence in the duple prolation section just before the change ends with a whole measure--two beats, but the triple prolation section has an upbeat, so that where S and W are strong and weak beats in double prolation, and s and w are strong and weak beats in triple prolation, the pattern is
S W S W w s w w s w w
^ ^^ ^ ^My first inclination is to start the piece with a meter signature of 2/2 and to put a double bar and a change to a meter signature of 3/2 at ^^, (with regular bar lines at ^).
What say ye?
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