It's easy enough to change all the note values with Mass Edit >
Change > Note Durations. The annoying part would be the time
signatures, if they change frequently: I don't know of a way to
double the beat duration of all time signatures.
So if you want to expand all time signatures proportionally (6/8
becomes 6/4, 2/4 becomes 2/2, whatever) then probably the best way is
to first double all the note durations, making sure that "Rebar
Music" is unchecked. Then go through the piece with the time
signature tool, always selecting the passage until the next time
signature change, then changing the time signature of that passage.
If there's a repeated pattern of changing time signatures, you could
do this a bit faster by selecting the pattern with Mass edit,
choosing only "Time Signatures" in Items to Copy, and pasting it the
required number of times.
As to whether you should or shouldn't do this, it's a personal
choice. The look of a piece can have an effect on the performer: I
don't think Beethoven's slow movements would be the same if you wrote
them out with doubled note values. I remember playing his Trio opus
70, N° 1 in D. (the "Ghost" trio). The slow movement is special:
it's 2/4, marked "Largo assai ed espressivo", and it's really, really
slow. All those 64th notes, and even sextuplets of 64th notes, make
it arguably hard to read, but I think the sort of "shivery" look they
give to the music on the page may well affect the way people perform
it. The actual tempo of this movement differs much from performance
to performance (Beethoven didn't supply a metronome marking), but
there's no doubt that something like quarter=38 would be too fast for
this piece.
Michael Cook
On 15 Mar 2007, at 22:22, Brennon Bortz wrote:
I have a task that I fear is going to be quite a project. I have a
piece (well, a section of one) that is in much too slow a tempo to
be "felt" by a performer. Right now, it is at quarter note=38. In
order to make this more playable, I need to change the tempo to
quarter=76, double all note values, change time signatures (they
change rather consistently), etc. Does anyone have any shortcuts
for this?
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