I've seen both. Personally I prefer the duplet. I did a concert last year and the composer (Elgar) used dotted quavers - it threw the young inexperienced players beside me. As other have said, both seem acceptable.
Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Jul 2017, at 6:04 pm, Michael Lawlor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Both are valid and which you choose is down to which you think will get > the best result according to the context and style of the piece and > players involved. > > Michael Lawlor > > >> On 05/07/2017 18:00, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am engraving a piece that is in 6/8. There are places where the dotted >> quarter beat is divided into 2. I've seen scores where that is notated with >> 2 dotted eighth notes and I've seen notated as a 2 eighth note tuplet. >> Which is correct or can either be used? Thanks to anyone who can offer >> their advice. >> >> Lee Dengler > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
