Awesome, thanks! On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Shane Brandes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
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