At 12:20 AM -0400 3/25/08, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 23 Mar 2008 at 21:55, Owain Sutton wrote:
(Why
notate anything as 2/2, if it's likely to be heard as 2/4?)
This kind of comment makes me crazy.
You notate it as 2/2 because MUSICIANS PLAY IT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE
PLAY 2/4.
Certain styles of music make more sense in 2/2 than they would in 4/4
or 2/4.
I've got to back David up on this. In baroque chamber music we run
into meters like 3/2 and 3/8 fairly often. My students deal pretty
well with 3/8 (and even with inserted bars of 3/4 intended to make a
hemiola VERY obvious, once we figured it out), but cut time in 3
throws many of them. Yeah, they're students and not professionals,
and *I* don't have trouble with those meters, but they've been
playing quarter note based music their entire musical lives.
John
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