Re: 5 quaters per 4/4 measure

Menu,

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Menu Jacques [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

The Binchois.xml example by Recordare has 5 quater notes in a 4/4 measure (stemless by the way).

There are a number of ways to do this.

1. You can use a quintuplet with the bracket and number hidden: \once \omit TupletBracket \once \omit TupletNumber \tuplet 5/4 { ... }

2. You can scale the duration of any note on the fly using the "*N/M" syntax, which will cascade to subsequent notes with the duration omitted: c4*4/5

3. You can use \scaleDurations to scale an entire passage: \scaleDurations 4/5 { ... }

So, take your pick! I think #2 would be the simplest here because you only need to indicate the duration + scale on the first quarter note of the first bar and it will apply to them all.

Is this a « bug » in this MusicXML file, and if not, is there a way to produce that with LP?
I know I can use a hidden 5/4 time signature while diplaying a 4/4 one, but that’s not that satisfying…

In the XML code of measure 1, you'll notice that there isn't a time signature defined at all (unless what you copied+pasted somehow didn't include it), just a clef and key signature. How Finale knows to interpret the five quarter notes as a single bar without scaling them is a mystery.

Or maybe the absence of stems is the key to that? But I found nothing in the LP docs.

It's a possibility that Finale interprets the situation that way, but unless that's how it's laid out in the official MusicXML spec, I'm not sure I'd interpret it that way unless ALL apps that import/export MXML do the same thing.

HTH,

Abraham

From:	tisimst
Subject:	Re: 5 quaters per 4/4 measure
Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:11:00 -0700 (MST)