> On 29 Jul 2022, at 15:21, Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Hans,
Hello, >> Hindemith, "Training…", indicates that 6/8 is always bipartite, so the 3/4 >> is a metric shift in this music piece. > > Correct. > >> By contrast, 9/8 is tripartite, just as 3/4, so I do not see any obvious >> difference here. > > The difference is that each of the three big beats in 9/8 is subdivided into > three eighth notes, while each of the three big beats in 3/4 is subdivided > into two eighth notes… Writing it this way means that you don't have to write > the tuplet notation on alternate bars. Yes, notational convenience, but the OP described it as wanting to have 3/4 "feeling", which raised some questions over what this might mean.
