Kieren, You hit the nail on the head!
Living in the southwestern U.S., I find myself going nuts between 6/8 and 3/4 - WSS is the perfect example - except that here we go back and forth without any actual notational indication (except maybe a hasty pencil mark). My head hurts by the end of my third or fourth service on Sunday for just that reason! Karen > On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:16 PM, 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? > > 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user