On 12/10/2016 8:34 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > You might have missed my response. I said the passage in “Arabesque” in 6/4 > was marked “2+2+2” and I agreed with it. >
I did see it, but I had forgotten it this morning. :-( Sorry. So how did you conduct that? In the traditional 6 pattern that conducting books teach? I've never had a problem with performers when I've conducted such a measure in a subdivided 3/2 (whether written in 6/4 or 3/2), which is what it essentially is, bouncing twice on each of the three beats, thus indicating all 6 quarter notes, but keeping the stress on 1, 3, 5. Ultimately it comes down to each situation compositionally and each situation from the performers' perspective. How the composer chooses to write it and how the conductor chooses to conduct it matters only in as much as the music comes out properly. -- ***** David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
