Re: Default beaming for 3/4

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Freitag, 26. August 2011, 15:12:16 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Note that this would not agree with Gould.  Paraphrasing the gut rule I
> apply here, this would likely be something like
> 
>   An off-beat can be beamed to the next group if its on-beat is not
>   explicitly present.

The problem is that the start of a beam somehow indicates a slight accent (not 
strictly), like the third quarter in a 4/4 measure. If you beam c4. c8[ c c] 
the actually "accented" note (the middle c8) is in the middle of the beam, and 
the first c8 would be played slightly accented. 

However, Gould says that in many classical pieces it is okay to use c4. c8[ c 
c] in 3/4, because the beats are very clear. That's an exception to the rule, 
though, rather than the rule.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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