On 1 Jul 2005 at 23:02, Owain Sutton wrote:

> David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > I don't agree that it's problematic to indicate something like E = E
> > when there's a change of time signature whose interpretation is
> > ambiguous. The hard part is when it's something like Q = H, where it
> > may be that the old quarter equals the new half, or the old half
> > equals the new quarter.
> 
> Provided it's positioned with the '=' directly over the barline, I
> don't see how there could be any ambiguity in this.  I've never
> encountered anyone getting confused by such a notation.

I've heard discussions of which way it is to be interpreted, as "new 
Q = old H" or as "old Q = new H". I think both are actually valid 
interpretations, and just placing the = over the barline seems to me 
to be insufficient, which is why I add the arrows.

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

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