Joram, For me correct is "what makes more sense to my reading/interpretation of the music." I use Lilypond to score music for my own performance (generally private), therefore I need not conform to Gould.
My suggestion is to do whatever makes the experience better for you. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Noeck [mailto:noeck.marb...@gmx.de] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 3:46 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek; lilypond-user Subject: Re: Time signature differs from measure length > -----Original Message----- > I want to write a piece with a alla-breve time signature but with four > half notes in a measure (4/2). > > Is it better to overwrite the time signature stencil and use \time 4/2 or do > it like this: > > \version "2.18.2" > > \relative c'' \scaleDurations 1/2 { > \time 2/2 > r2 g g g | f f g b | b a b1 > } > Noeck, > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-09/msg00603.html > might be of help. > > Mark Thanks. I should have found this. My main question which solution is more correct? Scaling the durations or changing the printed time signature? Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
