On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hello list,
I have a piece that alternates measures of 4/4 and 3/4 throughout.
The pattern does not vary at all -- it's always one measure of 4
followed by one measure of 3.
My questions are about multimeasure rests in the parts. Obviously,
by default, Finale won't create any multimeasure rests, because the
meter changes every measure.
But:
1) Would you consider it acceptable to force multimeasure rests in
this situation (provided they always begin on the first measure of
the 4+3 pattern)? Otherwise, I think the parts will be needlessly
long and difficult to follow.
I wouldn't force multimeasure rests here, for the usual reasons of
clarity, etc.
I was faced with this exact situation once in a piece, and I ended up
notating it in 7/4 with a dotted barline between the 4 part and the
3 (added as an expression) in the bars that had music in them. It
was surprisingly easy to read, as musicians can deal with this sort
of thing more easily than I had foreseen. We pretty much sight-read
it with no problem. It was back in the days of extracted parts, so
the score had the dotted barlines added in EVERY measure after part
extraction. I guess this particular example doesn't help you in
linked parts.
In Altsys Jazz Orchestra we play some wacky stuff, including a piece
by Robin Eubanks called World Citizen that starts in 7 and gets into
bigger prime-numbered metres as it progresses. The part in 7 Bill
Mahar (the arranger) didn't even use dotted barlines and we read it
fine. For the parts in 11 and 17 he did use dotted barlines, but at
the end in (I think) 33 it is divided into smaller measures with no
ill effects as to length.
Christopher
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