Re: hang --"going backwards in time; " "insane spring distance requested"

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Nov 2007, at 19:15, Damian Legassick wrote:

> i can't immediately see how you'd play 3599/11748 but i'd be  
> surprised if the math that got you there was so hard.

The question is where the metric accents are. There are three  
different possibilities already for 9 = 4+2+3. I think the beaming  
used on this one used by Bartok might be wrong, if it is the common  
Romanian meter he implies.

> recently i've taken to defining such time signatures by what  
> they're missing. eg 9/8 - 1/20 rather than 43/40. either way is  
> really an aide-memoir and can't be 'read' as such, but in the  
> example i'm thinking of 9/8 -1/20 is less stressful.

The Bulgarian Eleno Mome can be written in say 13 = 4+4+2+3, order to  
indicate a time bending on the last beat. In reality, though, one may  
play something like 4+4+2+3.5. I think it is perhaps better to write  
it in 7 = 2+2+1+2, and indicate the time bending with other means  
than a complicated time signature. Sometimes it can be difficult to  
assign a meter notation at all.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_dances
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leventikos

  Hans Aberg