perhaps a 3/2 measure with dotted lines for beats 3 + 5?

Raymond Horton
Composer, Arranger
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church
Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016


On Dec 11, 2016 10:22 AM, "Christopher Smith" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> You must have meant 2/4.
>
> It’s not a screwup; it’s communicating something that isn’t necessarily
> there in the music. There is a large downbeat on the first beat of the 6/4,
> then the next large downbeat is the next bar of 4/4. If the 6/4 were
> divided into 3 bars of 2/4, it would be implying metric accents that
> weren’t there, at the beginning of each measure of 2/4. I know as a
> performer I would be wondering why we suddenly went to smaller measures
> when the music didn’t reflect it. I’m a big proponent of making the
> notation match what we are hearing, as much as that can be accomplished.
>
> Christopher
>
> > On Dec 11, 2016, at 9:47 AM, timothy.price <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>> I wouldn?t have liked three bars of 2/4 either, in a context of
> >>> 4/4, as that would have been really weird.
> >
> > timothy.key.price
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> > We composers have to try to make clear our intentions to conductors
> > ranging from brilliant to partial awareness, with an emphasis upon
> > the latter.
> > Tell, me how, in a 4/4 context,  anyone, seeing 3 measures of 2/2,
> > could possibly screw up?
> >
> > tim
> >
> >
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