Or, you could use Crumb's 5-beat note: .o.
A whole note with a dot before and after. The thinking is - the dot before the note takes away half of the value of the dot after. Actually, I only saw this in smaller note values - 5/8 or 5/16. Like so many recent composers, Crumb prefers little notes. Raymond Horton On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > On Thu, January 13, 2011 3:27 pm, Ryan wrote: > > What is your preferred method of writing a note that sounds for the > duration > > of a 5/4 bar? > > The rhythmic division. 1+4, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1. The inner pair is more common, > but > the measure fill adheres to the underlying pulse. If the pulses differ in > the > different parts, then the nearest in character. > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
