Speaking as an orchestral musician, I don't like it.
One piece, extremely well known, that does this, is Bernstein's _West
Side Story_, alternating 4/4 and 2/4 but using block multimeasure
rests. When we play it, I lightly pencil in each 4/4 and 2/4
underneath, and I've been around the block a few times.
It just works differently than the way the brain works. If your 4/4
plus 3/4 were 7/4, that would be a different story.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist
Louisville Orchestra
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.
2) If I do decide to do this, how do I go about it in Finale?
Cheers,
- Darcy
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