Hi Martin, On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Martin Neubauer <mrtn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering how often the odd half measure beam really leads to ambiguity > between 3/4 and 6/8 time in properly typeset music.
In “West Side Story”, the half-measure beams in “America” indicate where the measure grooves in 6/8, and the full-measure beams indicate where the measure grooves in 3/4. (n.b. If I were engraving “WSS", I would go even further and beam the three quarters separately.) If it were arbitrarily beamed, that vital information would be lost. Or is that not the kind of thing you were talking about? Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
