On 9 Feb 2004 at 10:16, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >David W. Fenton écrit: > >>Then why is 3/2 completely unacceptable? > > > >Well, it would involve cutting all the measures in two, and I don't > >really see the point in it. The presence of a section in 6/4 isn't > >the only reason against changing the 6/2 to 6/4. We've discussed this > >here already, and I (and others) prefer to retain the original time > >signatures. > > I find the notion that any notatable time signature is somehow > undesirable to be faintly repellent, because it suggests that the > composer's creativity should be subordinated to the notation, which > is precisely backward.
??? A composer lives in a reality where there are performers who have a limited amount of time to prepare performances, and its in the composer's interest to choose notation (not meters) that convey the musical content in a fashion that is most easily comprehended by performers and still conveys all the necessary musical information. > I once had occasion to write a couple of measures of 3 / 1/2 time > (three very slow double-whole-note beats), and I went right ahead and > did it, because it's what the sense of the music demanded. I can't > imagine re-metering something like that merely because it's > unorthodox. Yet, if there were an orthodox method of conveying exactly the same musical content (as there is not, in your case), and performers are more familiar with that method, why would you choose otherwise? I assumed from context that Dennis was creating a modern edition of old music. But the example I gave in another post of renotating a 6/4 composition in 3/2 was one of my own compositions. I originally composed it in 6/4, but the result was rather incompatible with the meter. I ran it by a performer I trust and she agreed that the 3/2 version was much easier to comprehend. But if there had been no "orthodox" solution, I certainly wouldn't have re-written the piece to be more orthodox, and the suggestion is nowhere present any anything I've written in this thread. I don't know what happened here, but I really feel like everything I've written on this subject has been willfully misinterpreted by people apparently spoiling for a fight. So I shall stop now and leave the matter where it rests. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
