Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement
New issue 2713 by [email protected]: \compoundMeter cannot handle
irrational or fractional meters
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2713
Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote :
Lilypond currently supports simple "irrational meters" like 4/10, 7/6, etc.
which are used by contemporary composers such as Ferneyhough, Adčs, etc.
However, \compoundMeter cannot handle many of these complex notations. It
sometimes fails when an irrational component such as 1/10 is included in
the compound meter, and fails when a _fractional_ value such as 2/3 is
included in the compound meter -- as in Boulez' "Le marteau sans maître"
where there are time signatures such as (4 + 2/3)/8 .
I've attached 3 minimal examples, 2 which fail with the compound meter but
compile with the equivalent non-compound irrational meter; and one which
includes a compound irrational meter that works.
Attachments:
compound-fractional.ly 202 bytes
compound-irrational.ly 211 bytes
compound-irrational-works.ly 83 bytes
