On 29 Jun 2005 at 18:57, Chuck Israels wrote:

> On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:45 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > (the "I want to live in America" effect
> 
> I don't remember how Bernstein wrote this, but I'd write it with one 
> combined time signature 6/8 and 3/4 and think that that was pretty 
> clear.  It seems cluttered to change time signatures every measure 
> for something as consistent as this example.  I'd trust musicians to 
> understand that in a flash.

I would have assumed that it was notated with a 6/8 time signature. 
The 3/4 shifts would be obvious in that context.

There's hundreds of years of music that works exactly that way.

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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