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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
