Then I would add a text expression above the three notes which would say something to the effect of: (To be sung as pickups to the next bar.) of (in the manner of pickups)
I would also add a note to the conductor explaining this in greater detail.
Taris L Flashpaw wrote:
Hi all:
This is a question I've been puzzling over for quite some time and it relates to a piece I'm composing for women's choir. The piece is totally ametric (in the nature of John Taverner's "Village Wedding"). There is no time signature, but the music is barred. Each system is one complete measure and the meter changes from bar to bar. So one bar is in 16/4, the next in 11/4, the next in 15/4. Makes for a lovely effect.
What I need to know is how I can notate three notes in this system that have the quality of a pickup measure. They can't have any accent but the mild stress of the phrase must be on the fourth note (the one after these three, which in conventionally barred music, would be in the next measure.) In 4/4, the way I would do it is to have:
BAR 1: Quarter rest - note #1 - note #2 - note #3
BAR 2: note #4 - etc...
How would I accomplish this in an ametric system?
Taris
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