Hi Damian, I am looking at my copy of the famous Scherzo opus 4 of Brahms. (Kalmus Edition) The beaming is clearly r4 r8 8[ 8 8] all over the place, since the main them is r4 r8 8[ 8 8]. I see this as an expediting right hand of Mr. Brahms, I bet 100 euros that the original manuscript is beamed the same way.
I can go get my scores of quintets, quartets, and symphonies, and show the same beaming. Craig Bakalian On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 07:07 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
