Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

[Karen S. Billings]

Kieren,

You hit the nail on the head!

Living in the southwestern U.S., I find myself going nuts between 6/8 and 3/4 - 
WSS is the perfect example - except that here we go back and forth without any 
actual notational indication (except maybe a hasty pencil mark).  My head hurts 
by the end of my third or fourth service on Sunday for just that reason!

Karen

> On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:16 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Martin Neubauer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I was wondering how often the odd half measure beam really leads to 
>> ambiguity between 3/4 and 6/8 time in properly typeset music.
> 
> In “West Side Story”, the half-measure beams in “America” indicate where the 
> measure grooves in 6/8, and the full-measure beams indicate where the measure 
> grooves in 3/4. (n.b. If I were engraving “WSS", I would go even further and 
> beam the three quarters separately.) If it were arbitrarily beamed, that 
> vital information would be lost.
> 
> Or is that not the kind of thing you were talking about?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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