Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 06.04.2016 04:46, Martin Neubauer wrote:
> I was more curious about the existence of music that's strictly in 3/4 
> time and where the way of printing a three-quaver pickup would 
> actually make a difference.

There are hardly such cases before 1900, and that’s exactly why the 
convention changed. It’s a bit like with beaming in vocal music: 
pre-1900 music would rarely get so rhythmically complicated that having 
no beams on syllabic music would have been a problem. Such situations 
only came up later, so another notational convention was introduced.

Best, Simon