just because bartók died in 1945 doesn't make the practice obsolete. >You'll disagree, of course, but I'd expect that >no one is ever sight-reading the types of music >you normally engrave!
i'm not concerned so much with sight-reading. i'm concerned with the music being clearly shown to the musician. although i rarely come across it, i simply cannot condone the exclusion of such practices. in the case they mention (difficulty in ensemble practice), i don't see what the problem should be (especially since their set of rules gives the impression there is also a limited gamut of available time sigs...). if different voices have different phrasing and there are inherent patterns that are not obvious when beamed "properly" i would definitely consider using beams across the barline, or at least beaming in a manner that is not "standard for the time sig. in fact sometimes i have something similar within "normal" beaming, when i can break the 16th beam, for example, to draw attention to an underlying metric "contradiction". _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
