At 01:54 PM 2/12/06 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > old value = new value >The 8th value of previous section becomes quoter value in new section, >indicates the music is going to be double time. I was recently told >traditionally this is backward, which I think is very counterintuitive, >but also it is not totally illogical. >I have been googling to no avail. Do you know if the above statement of >tradition is true and if so, is there any pointer URL?
I can quote from Gardner Read's book (first ed. p. 279): "When, however, there is a change of time signature in which the new unit of time is twice as fast, or twice as slow, as the previous metric beat, it is customary to indicate the fact by means of two small notes placed over the first beat of the new section, as shown below. The left-hand example [q.n.=h.n.] makes clear that the previous quarter-note had the same duration as the present half-note. The right-hand example [8.n.=16.n.] indicates that the former eighth-note had the same duration as the present sixteenth-note." Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/365-2007.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
