Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not at all; see my comments above. The only reason for even
> considering this is that, since the piece in question is alternately
> in 6/8 and 3/4, a dotted half note is ambiguous to a person reading
> only one part and they won't know what to expect from the conductor.

All he needs to know, when playing a dotted half, is that he starts playing on a downbeat and stops on or about the next one. A downbeat is wahtever is preceded by an upbeat, which should be recognisable as such in either meter.

--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer

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