> - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each > syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. I'll leave it up to > you to decide which style you want to follow. It sounds like you're using > an older edition for a source.
That is not totally a thing of old practise/new practice. Conventional vocal practise is to have beams align with melismas. This has the advantage that more complex melismatic lyrics distributions are easy to read. But when you have scores with high rhythmical complexity but little melismatic complexity, we keep to common beaming (although singers are used to singing quite complex rhythms without beams). Also of course in scores for people who do not need lyrics like conductor scores you do not want this and instead want regular beaming for rhythmic clarity. One can of course try to find a compromise by mixing the forms (it is quite common to break beams on a melisma at main beats), or by using things like dubdivisions. In this case the conventional vocal beaming is fine, due to the nature of the score. They are just not entirely consistent, as in triplets. I’ve attached some examples to illustrate the advantages. Cheers, Valentin
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