On Saturday, June 09, 2001 12:46 PM, Cornelius C. Noack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Question: how can one change the meter for each instrument individually, > for coding polyrythmic music in pmx ? What I mean is have voice 1 play > in 4/4, voice 2 in 3/4, voice 3 in 5/5 etc. This occurs > not only in 20th century music (Stravinsky, Messiaen etc.), but even > Mozart did this (e.g. in quartet KV 370, last movement, which is > generally in 6/8, but in midstream the oboe changes to 4/4 (per bar), > while the other 3 voices continue in 6/8! I always knew this was hard > to play, but now I find it even hard to write down!). > Is there a solution? > > A somewhat related question: the pmx manual says that the last note of > an > xtuplet can not be a rest. But this occurs quite often in musical > practice, e.g in triplets, of which only the first 2 notes are sounded. > > Why the restriction in pmx? > For now neither of these features is available in PMX, so your best for either is some sort of in-line fakery. If you have a specific case in mind I'd be glad to help. Why aren't they there? Just that I haven't had a personal need for either, and haven't felt intriqued enough by the challenge (yet). --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
