sorry to be a pedant, but... traditionally, 4. [8 8 8] is the exception to the rule that you subdivide the 8ths 2,2,2 in a 3/4 bar
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms and Ravel do this consistently. It is also normal for Debussy apart from in the late violin sonata . the occasional exception to this exception is in phrasing like this: 4.( 8)-. 8[( 8]) or 4.( 8)-. 8[( 8] I'm sorry to contradict David but you'll be hard pushed to find many published examples of 4. 8 [8 8] that don't have mitigating phrasing circumstances (e.g. Rachmaninov prefers a strict 2,2,2 at slow tempi). There are, otoh, literally thousands of examples of 4. [8 8 8] in 3/4 time from the baroque through late-romantic periods - it is certainly not 'wrong' even though it 'should' be logically d On 14 Aug 2011, at 17:59, Craig wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 12:00 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: >> So the defaults should look like [8 8 8 8 8 8] and even [8. 16 8 8 8 >> 8], >> but 4. [8 8 8] is wrong and needs to be 4. 8 [8 8] instead. >> >> 6/8 would have [8 8 8] [8 8 8], [8. 16 8] [8 8 8] and 4. [8 8 8], >> respectively. >> >> -- >> David Kastrup > > Hi All, > > I must add that (I am speaking as a living composer, for what that is > worth these days), the above question has more to do with phrasing and > tempo. I write the 4. [8 8 8] with musical textures that are developing > rapidly with a fast tempo, and I write 4. 8 [8 8] when things are > developing slowly. Also, it depends upon the other parts of the music, > if there are further simultaneous subdivisions. But, it is mainly > because of phrasing. Brahms and Chopin expedited their notation. > Didn't Chopin and Brahms write 4. [8 8 8]? > > Craig Bakalian > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
