Agree with David entirely. The distinction is a useful and longstanding one. I don't see what is gained by blurring it.
Steve P. > On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:00, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On 12/8/2016 12:36 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote: >> I agree with Patrick, the denominator suggests the pulse's value. >> > > If that's true, then why is 6/8 so often played as 2/dotted-quarter > instead of clearly indicating each 8th note? That seems to be the > majority of the time. > > And the original question wasn't about which is less likely to cause > confusion in rehearsal (I find that most of the time such confusion is > caused by people who want to show off their music theory "skills" rather > than actual confusion by people who truly don't understand how the music > is supposed to sound). > > The original question was how *best* to show that the emphasis in the > measure(s) in question should be on 1, 3, and 5 instead of 1 and 4. > > I still don't understand how using a meter that is most widely > understood to be compound-triple meter (6 is usually broken up into 2 > groups of 3) would indicate that. > > Keeping the quarter note pulse going at the same rate shouldn't be a > problem for any composer to explain (the use of q = q should take care > of that) but how would a composer indicate that the emphasis should be > on 1, 3, 5 while using a meter that many people interpret as havint the > emphasis on 1 and 4? > > Those of us on this list who have participated in this discussion would > have no problem since the way the question was asked originally lets us > know how the 6/4 or 3/2 measures should be interpreted. But putting > aside those of us on this list, how would a composer indicate in a > printed score, without using accent marks which would likely produce > more emphasis than desired, that with a 6/4 meter the emphasis should be > 1, 3, 5 so that a performer far removed from this discussion or removed > even from this time (for example finding the score 50 years from now and > choosing to perform it) would understand how the music should sound? > > -- > ***** > David H. Bailey > dhbaile...@comcast.net > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
