On 6 April 2016 at 04:16, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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? > Almost. But that's a case where Timing.beamHalfMeasure wouldn't help much (if at all). I was more curious about the existence of music that's strictly in 3/4 time and where the way of printing a three-quaver pickup would actually make a difference. All the best, Martin -- homme, ni présence
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