This is an answer to David's question but it gets into a few of the other ideas that have been brought up since. I was a little slow getting around to the list today (it's Saturday after all!).
A recurring rhythmic figure in the piece is: q e q e / q q q - one measure clearly 6/8 and one 3/4. You can also see the clutter every one would be faced with trying to indicate each change in a piece like this. There's also an arpeggiated figure that is sort of like the Saturday Night Live character, Pat, (for any of you who remember) from several years back: e e e tied to e e e which I've chosen to beam in 6/8 but could go either way. :-) Although 6/8, in two, really is the predominant metric feeling, the 3/4 aspect of the piece seemed to need recognition in the time signature. The tempo is fast enough that there's not a ton of consecutive 8th notes, and the beaming also helps in those situations. After taking another look, though, it's probably a little slow to conduct in one, as I had mentioned in my original post. But it's also fast enough to have a dotted half line that doesn't feel like it's just sustaining. The way some of the phrases come together, a case could probably be made for 6/4 (12/8), but I think that could make the above-mentioned figure a little harder to read. Don on 1/21/06 5:21 AM, dhbailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don Hart wrote: > >> Thank you to Johannes, Robert and Eric for the help on this. >> >> There is one thing I discovered which seems to alleviate the need for >> TGTools in this situation. I kept the 3/4 part of the signature in the Time >> Signature tool and replaced the plus sign with an *option* space. This gave >> me enough space for the parentheses, both between the 6/8 and 3/4, and >> before the music started. Mac '05, by the way. >> >> Thanks again. >> > I'm glad you've got the actual problem sorted out. Now comes the > inevitable music theory question -- > > 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. > > This is curiosity only, I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't do > things as you've done them, I'm just wondering how the musicians will > know the difference so they can play the different metrical stresses > properly. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
