> On Sep 17, 2016, at 5:42 AM, Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17.09.2016 08:08, Kim Shrier wrote: >> I am re-typsetting a piece from a modern (1950’s) edition >> of some 14’th century music, in order to make it easier to >> read and play from. It has a time signature that looks like: >> >> 3 >> 2 x - >> 4 > > If I may give some counsel here: Make it easy and just use 6/4. There’s no > additional information we gain from the extraordinary 2x3/4, and IIUC using > meters of 6 is very common in transcriptions of such early music.
I think that preserving the time signatures as they are would be better. the 2 x 3/4 was just one example. The piece starts off in 2 x 2/4 goes to 2 x 6/8 then 3 x 6/8 then back to 2 x 2/4 and ends in 2 x 3/4. The second part starts in 2 x 6/8, goes to 3 x 6/8, 2 x 3/4, 3 x 3/4, 2 x 3/4, and ends in 2 x 6/8. The first number tells you how many major pulses are in a measure and the fraction tells you how to subdivide the pulse. I do appreciate your advice. > > Best, Simon Kim _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
