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Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator


From: Chris Yate
Subject: Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:10:14 +0000

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 at 18:03 tisimst <address@hidden> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

It's *legitimate* in all musical circles, though it's not *embraced* by all.

... as Kieren and I saw on a facebook group the other day when a composer started a discussion about having a bar with an "irrational" 2/6 time signature. Wow, the flames that ensued! It's quite simple:

{ \time 2/6 \tuplet 3/2 { c'4 c' } }

... with or without the tuplet number/bracket.

-
Abraham

Like so many things in life and art, just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should* ;-)

Luckily, in Lilypond you *can* :-D 

Given almost any rhythm could be expressed without the use of silly time signatures (possibly by eliminating bar lines for a short section, or maybe writing extra bars*). It makes sense to make life easy for your players, rather than show off just how clever you are.

I've very occasionally had to play a bar or two of 4/3, and it unnecessarily complicates something that's already difficult; particularly as it utterly confuses those players that don't know how to parse it.

Chris

* yes, it could be difficult to write the same bar lines for all players. Better I think to write partial bar lines and readable rhythms. The same argument stands for ridiculous key signatures, whether an explicit key sig, or written as something like a scale of F double-sharp


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