Hello All,
It's not unusual, just not Common Era period which lilypond principally
focuses on.
It is not a _cancellation_ or a crossing out. It's as designator of open
meter. Dorico enables it because people use it and request it, not
because the Dorico team read it in Gould. Dorico targets a broader
spectrum than CE period, in particular film scoring and so on.
One example has been given. Do you need more? A quorum? :-)
Here's Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_time_%28music%29
Adding this open meter indication to lilypond would do no harm, surely?
As with Dorico, don't make it mandatory for open meter, just available
if required.
Andrew
On 4/06/2023 11:50 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Thanks, but ideally we would like to see a real-world example that
predates recent notation programs – they probably all try to implement
the stuff from Gould's book...
