On 14 Jan 2011, at 19:18, Arle Lommel wrote:
Both formats are used. It's really a matter of which tradition you
are working in.
Yes, that was my point, too.
For Hungarian stuff this is the normal representation:
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I'm guessing in Bulgaria the other notation is the norm (although I
don't work with it so I don't know)
It is interesting it has become the norm in Hungary. Bartók Béla
worked closely with ethnomusicologist Vinko Žganec, and I am told that
in an extensive work by the latter, this notation is used. So it is
perhaps they who have invented it.
As for the Balkans, one is normally using '+' only if one thinks it
might be unclear otherwise, or in case of meters felt to be built up
by other common meters. So for say different 7s or 9s (or 8s), one
just writes one number, as these are well known. The Sedi Donka was
written 7+7+11 as the one who wrote felt as compound by the common the
7 and 11.
Somebody in this list used the notation of writing just the number in
the staff, and the '+' decomposition above it and the staff within
parenthesis in smaller size. That seems me to be a good idea. The '+'
is not needed if the decomposition can be seen from the beaming.
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