Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On 1/21/06, Éric Dussault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 06-01-21 à 06:21, dhbailey a écrit :
If you're just placing the two meters beside each other at
the start of the work, how will anybody know when a measure
is supposed to get the 3/4 feeling instead of hemiolas in 6/8?
With both meters allowing 6 8th notes (or 3 quarter notes) it
may not be immediately obvious in measures other than ones full
of 8th notes where you can show the meter with the beaming.
When beaming correctly in 3/4 and 6/8 measure, it should be
obvious in which of the two he is. Following Ted Ross-like rules
for beaming and rests should make it clear.
Yes, but what if there are no beams (a half note and a quarter note,
for example)?
How would your example be performed differently in 6/8 or 3/4?
However, the notation of it looks like 3/4 to me, and in 6/8 should
probably be dotted quarter tied to eighth, quarter note, which would
adequately denote the intended subdivision.
Also, Finale might make it difficult to ensure correct
beaming, since it will alternate its default beaming between 6/8 and
3/4 in each subsequent measure. That's what "adding" timesigs together
is supposed to denote.
I don't get this. If you have set Finale to alternate measures of 6/8
and 3/4, but to always show as (whatever you chose), then beaming will
occur automatically to the time signature unless you manually override
it. Isn't that what is wanted?
Does Finale really alternate the time signatures and therefore the
beaming if you use the + sign in the time signature?
Whenever I've seen two meters it has never been an alternating every
other measure sort of music, but rather some measures are in one meter,
some in the other, and the mixture is consistent but not totally, so I
don't see how Finale would know which beaming to use.
Okay, I just tried this and I'm thoroughly confused -- how do you get
the time signatures with the addition symbol? I just did it, using the
Composite dialogue, and entered 2 over 1536 (using EDUs for the note
values) and then 3 over 1024 and get the time signature to show 6/8 +
3/4, but that is for EACH measure, not alternating measures. I can now
enter 12 8th-notes in measure, beamed 3, 3, 2, 2, 2. So how would
Finale apply this to consecutive measures? If I enter a single time
signature for the real time signature and then use the Use Different
Signature For Display and set that to be the 6/8 + 3/4 then enter a
bunch of 8th notes, they're all beamed in groups of 3 in each measure.
Am I misunderstanding the process? Is there really a way to enter the
two different meters and have Finale automatically switch beaming
between alternating measures?
--
David H. Bailey
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