On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > Hi Evan, > > > On 29.08.2017 22:26, Evan Laforge wrote: >> >> In music where the time signature changes a lot, it's nice to show the >> time signature on each line even when it hasn't changed. > > > Are you sure? Who does that? I looked in the very finely engraved full score > of Stravinsky’s Sacre, and Stravinsky and/or the engraver(s) didn’t find it > necessary/desirable. If it’s unnecessary there, it should be unnecessary > anywhere.
You might be right, I might just have made this up. I too have the Rite score, but it's the conductors score, so it's reasonable to expect the conductor to always know what the meter is. I have the situation where the meter changes rarely enough that you might have to scan back several systems to find a change, but often enough that if someone says "start at measure 87" that no one will know right off what the meter is there. I started the practice because I myself would have to either count beats or scan back when starting in some arbitrary spot, but maybe more skilled folks can see the time signature more quickly than I can and don't need such training wheels. I number every bar too :) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
