On 21 Jan 2006 at 8:22, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > Yes, but what if there are no beams (a half note and a quarter note, > for example)? . . .
Well, I don't know how someone could play that without it sounding like it's in 3/4 not 6/8, but if you really wanted them to try, you'd notate it as dotted quarter tied to 8th tied to quarter. I doubt it would have any audible effect, but it would certainly indicate that you didn't want it to be in 3/4 but in 6/8. > . . . 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. You'd have to rebeam where Finale gets it wrong, but that's a given, since Finale can only beam automatically to the designated time signaturre. If you're not changing the time signatures, then you have to change the beaming to indicate the time signature. My bet is that in most music of this type, there's very little that has to be done to make it clear which is which. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
