At 11:53 AM -0400 6/2/10, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Notating that figure in a more conventional way, so that the beams/ties show the 4/4 but the accents indicate the 3+3+3+4+3 makes it a lot more likely that the music will be read correctly in the first place, and helps prevent any mistakes from snowballing.
That's VERY conventional in concert band music of a certain age. Part of the problem seems to be the degree of ignorance or inability to FEEL phrasing (as opposed to SEEING it) you assume in your musical target market. I'm very comfortable writing for my own community band because I know them well. Writing for either a middle school band or a top military band, I might make different notation decisions.
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