Hi Kieren,
Am 14.11.21 um 15:00 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
There just is no uniquely identified print form using a note in the
denominator for that time signature representation.
As I’ve explained several times, there is.
I don't think you're right.
It's well possible that I'm missing the point completely, but here's my
take:
When Thomas Adès switches from 4/4 to 4/5, there is no way of knowing
which "graphical" note length (combination of notehead style and flag
count) is supposed to be used for the basic unit (of which 4 make up a
bar, and of which five equal the duration of a semibreve).
In written scores, that's not a problem: You can just count in a printed
bar to find out what X is in "four X's make up a bar", and in the Adès
scores I have seen, it was usually X = crotchet. But there's no way of
knowing that beforehand.
That problem always bugged me with this style of notation.
Lukas
