Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? ajr
> 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 > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
