I think that's where I originally saw this sort of thing. - Don

on 1/21/06 5:41 AM, Michael Cook at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I don't know what Don's piece looks like, but to take a well-known
> example: "I like to be in America" is notated this way, with 6/8(3/4)
> as time signature at the beginning, and I don't think there's any doubt
> how to play or conduct this piece.
> 
> Michael Cook
> 
> On 21 Jan 2006, at 12:21, dhbailey wrote:
> 
>>  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.
>> 
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