Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:22:16AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>> On May 31, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
>> 
>> >  \time 3/4
>> >  % proposal 1: dotted notes
>> >  c4. c4. |
>> 
>> I would never do this unless there was a longer section of hemiolas.
>
> I'd be sorely tempted to change to
>   \time 6/8
> if all voices had such rhythms.

The whole point of hemiolas is to fit with the timing.  Changing the
meter ruins the pun.  Like writing every 4 as 8~8 in off-beat phrases,
it seems like a crutch for people uncapable of dealing with the duality
of inner and outer rhythmic structure of a syncopated phrase.

-- 
David Kastrup


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