Re: Beam subdivision

[Rutger Hofman]

On 03/10/2015 05:52 PM, tisimst wrote:
> The other question the OP was asking is can the group default to have
> TWO full beams across the group, while the pairs of 32nd notes are
> beamed together with a third. It seems like non-standard notation, so
> quick, generic solutions for any size of group, outside of a function
> like the one already proposed, may not exist. I had a look through the
> IR and couldn't find anything that says it will only use a SINGLE beam
> across the whole group.
>
> - Abraham

Gould (Behind Bars) pp.156,157 says that the number of beams between 
subgroups should reflect the duration of the subgroup. So, if 32nd notes 
are subgrouped into groups of 4, the subgroup duration is 1/8 and the 
beam count between subgroups should be 1. If 32nd notes are subgrouped 
into groups of 2, or 64th notes are subgrouped into groups of 4, then 
the subgroup duration is 1/16 and the beam count between subgroups 
should be 2.

Is this different from Lilypond's default behaviour?

Rutger Hofman
Amsterdam