Re: looking for a style guide

[Xavier Noria]

Awesome, thanks!

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Shane Brandes <address@hidden> wrote:
> Xavier,
>
>  Meter and rhythm will determine the beaming and breaking of beams in
> a piece. The primary governor of beaming is of course the time
> signature. So 4/4 determines at the 8th note level 4 groupings of 8ths
> (two at a time). Cut-time looks like 4/4 but will break the 8ths in
> two groups of 4s. You appear to have a mixed meter thing going on in
> your example which might make one think of the first half of your
> measure is working in 1/2 time and the second half in 2/4 time so the
> pulse is sightly upset from a simple 4/4 if that is the intent (having
> a strong beat on the 1st eighth and two slightly stronger beats on the
> 5th and 7th eighths) then I would be prone to writing the last measure
> as half note quarter rest eighth rest eighth rest. In any event, you
> can re-beam note groupings at your discretion to indicate and
> emphasize whatever rhythmic pulse suits the piece and it is not
> necessary to stick with one thing. This occurs often enough in music
> such that any competent reader will understand without having to be
> supplied some ugly compound time signature such as 1/2 2/4 every other
> measure, unless it is something truly unusual like 2/3 5/4 2/4 time.
> I hope that helps your thinking about how to get the necessary
> information to the performer.
>
> regards,
>
> Shane Brandes
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Xavier Noria <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know
>> if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in
>> pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things.
>>
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