Hi Cortez, My reasons are perfectly logical, as I explained, and are the best solution for the musicians I work with.
In a contemporary context, people employ odd subdivisions of meters *all the time* without changing time signatures. 4/4 is very often subdivided 3+3+2. 3/4 is very often subdivided 3+3 without renotating the time signature as 6/8. 5/4 can go back and forth between 6+4, 4+6, and 5+5, and other subdivisions... 3/2 can be subdivided as if it were 12/8 (3+3+3+3). I have a piece that is written in 3/2 and goes back and forth between 4+4+4 and 3+3+3+3 every other measure. Writing a time signature change every measure would be needless clutter. Of course, subdivisions can also go over the barline... There's another contemporary composer who regularly subdivides two measures of 3/4 (in sixteenths) as 7+7+7+3. It's kind of his rhythmic signature. This kind of thing happens all the time in contemporary music. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no logical reason to have 6/4 doing double duty; being both a duple > and triple meter is confusing. In the example you state I would have written > 4 bars 4/4 and one 2/4. By your way I would always have to check where the > beat is in 6/4. What about 3/4 and 6/8? > > Cortez > > > > On 17.12.2012, at 23:18, Darcy James Argue wrote: > >> That is the traditional view. My own view is that 6/4 with the half note >> getting the beat is perfectly acceptable and logical in a modern context, >> especially if you're dealing with a mix of, e.g., 4/4 and 6/4. >> >> I have a piece where the time signature pattern is always 3 bars of 4/4 >> followed by a bar of 6/4 (subdivided in 3). It would be confusing to write >> those measures as 3/2 instead of 6/4 -- it would suggest that the underlying >> unit of pulse changes, when it does not. >> >> I have other pieces where the subdivision changes constantly from 2+2+2 to >> 3+3 and back, and it would be ridiculously cluttered to change time >> signatures every time that happens. There's no logical reason why 6/4 can't >> be made to do double duty. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> N.B. Please note my new email address: [email protected] >> Kindly update your Address Book, thanks! >> >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 17, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Three beats with a half note for the beat is 3/2, can never be 6/4 >>> >>> Cortez >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 17.12.2012, at 22:39, Darcy James Argue wrote: >>> >>>> Hi William, >>>> >>>> It's not a bug. Traditionally, 6/4 is a compound meter -- two beats per >>>> measure, dotted half note has the beat. That's why Finale shows only two >>>> slashes (and will add dots if you have "add dots to slashes in compound >>>> meter checked). >>>> >>>> If you want your 6/4 to be three beats per measure with the half note >>>> getting the beat, you can set up those options in the Time Signature >>>> dialogue box. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> - DJA >>>> ----- >>>> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >>>> >>>> On Dec 17, 2012, at 5:30 PM, William Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I have not seen this before. Have any of you? >>>>> >>>>> When I have a measure of 6/4, and I use SLASH notation, >>>>> it puts only 2 slashes for a 6/4 measure. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way around this problem? I want to avoid a HAND edit. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Finale mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
