On Thu, December 8, 2016 6:00 am, David H. Bailey wrote: > 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?
I wonder how applicable this pulse division is today? If bar demarcations are moving regularly among 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc., then the expectation of 6/4 as 2/q• or 6/8 as 2/e• vanishes, doesn't it? If the score is a little more old school and only using /4 divisions, then maybe the confusion is present, and the q=q note is worth noting. Though I've seen it done, alternating notations of 4/4 and 3/2 while keeping the quarter-note pulse the same never made sense to me. I would be expecting the conductor to switch to /2 pulses. I think the /8 triple divisions (3, 6, 9, 12 and 15) have always been a special case. Dennis _______________________________________________ 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
