Xavier, Meter and rhythm will determine the beaming and breaking of beams in a piece. The primary governor of beaming is of course the time signature. So 4/4 determines at the 8th note level 4 groupings of 8ths (two at a time). Cut-time looks like 4/4 but will break the 8ths in two groups of 4s. You appear to have a mixed meter thing going on in your example which might make one think of the first half of your measure is working in 1/2 time and the second half in 2/4 time so the pulse is sightly upset from a simple 4/4 if that is the intent (having a strong beat on the 1st eighth and two slightly stronger beats on the 5th and 7th eighths) then I would be prone to writing the last measure as half note quarter rest eighth rest eighth rest. In any event, you can re-beam note groupings at your discretion to indicate and emphasize whatever rhythmic pulse suits the piece and it is not necessary to stick with one thing. This occurs often enough in music such that any competent reader will understand without having to be supplied some ugly compound time signature such as 1/2 2/4 every other measure, unless it is something truly unusual like 2/3 5/4 2/4 time. I hope that helps your thinking about how to get the necessary information to the performer.
regards, Shane Brandes On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Xavier Noria <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know > if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in > pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
