timothy.key.price wrote:
If there are some on this list who might offer some advice, I have a question: A section of amorphous music for stings is now in 12/8 time at 1/8-50 which is verrrrry slow and no beat is stressed. [snip] Or should I rewrite it and absolutely choose another meter and increase the note value? Help/ lost.
It's been my experience that conductors do not like long measures of slow tempo. Making twice as many measures in 6/8 is better than longer measures of 12/8 at 1/8 = 50 MM. Even though it makes no difference mathematically, it helps with the beating patterns and the score/part reading. A musician can discern much easier where you are with 6 beats rather than 12. (I'm assuming that the 4 beats of three pulses does not apply here.)
I'd even be tempted to go with mostly 4/4, use tuplets, and let the music fall where it needs to go.
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