Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 12:27:25 schrieb David Kastrup: > Hans Aberg <hab...@math.su.se> writes: > > Take tuplets. If there are quintuplets, then it should be a 5' unless > > specified as typically 2'+3' or 3'+2'. > > > > For sextuplets, there is a convention that the should be in 3, so > > there is an implicit rule 3'+3' - there should be no subbeaming of the > > 3'. But a compose might want to change that. > > I am not sure I understand that. Why use sextuplets when you could just > use triplets as 3'+3'? I should think that sextuplets make most sense > when you need 2'+2'+2' as a rhythmic pattern.
In several violin parts, sextuplets are real sextuplets without any subdividing. The beaming should also span all six notes in that case. Cheers, Reinhld -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
