On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:24 PM, SN jef chippewa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Cross-bar beaming is not uncommon in solo music, >> but adds unnecessary difficulties to large >> ensemble writing. > > author never heard of bartók i guess... Bartók also died in 1945 and his method of indicating phrasing via beaming is widely considered obsolete. This part of the notation guide reflects absolutely bog-standard contemporary American practice (especially for orchestral/large ensemble works) and as far as I'm concerned, the reasoning given is 100% correct. Beaming reinforces meter. Beaming should not be used to indicate phrasing. There are plenty of other ways of doing that besides non-metrical beaming. You'll disagree, of course, but I'd expect that no one is sight-reading the types of music you normally engrave! Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
