Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

[Malte Meyn]

Am 21.08.2015 um 21:40 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Malte Meyn <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard:
> > > Interesting! New rules for basics of music.
> > >
> > > > I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there
> > > > is one 3/4 measure here, and I would trust the original typeset here.
> >
> > Not every time signature change is printed in every music. Even if you
> > see it as a “basic rule”. See for example the last one of
> > Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux. Rachmaninov knew what he did.
>
> The point of music notation is that others also get to know what you do.
Ok, I could have been more precise: Rachmaninov knew that others would 
understand what he did. He just didn’t overcomplicate things.

I think he was aware that key signatures wouldn’t be necessary at this 
place to be unambiguous. The notation and the music is so clear and 
unmistakable that I didn’t even notice the time changes for a few days 
or even weeks. And when I noticed them I realised that it isn’t 
necessary to print them; in a worst-case scenario they would distract 
the player from the long musical line. Musical notation always can have 
a big influence on musical performance.