Re: [Denemo-devel] music with 2 different time signatures

[Donald J. Stewart]

(my original reply was rejected)

thanks Richard (et all), I have read the lilypond documentation, but 
unfortunately doesn't explain this score's problem...

...the original score was (most likely) created in Finale...I don't have the 
files, and there are a couple of different issues regarding different time 
signatures...I think I'll ask them one at a time...

I've attached a pdf file and a screenshot of the 1st 'problem'.

I'd like to best reproduce the 'proportional' tempo change between the 
instrumental group and the choir, where the 4/4 time in instruments 
'moves' faster than the 4/4 time in the choir. Because this is not 
necessarily a 'change in meter', I'd like to find an elegant way of solving 
this in Denemo

thanks!

www.soundexperiment.org/NWSO/Bernfortheyshallexcerpt.pdf

On Friday, October 14, 2016 9:00:08 AM PDT Richard Shann wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 22:52 -0700, Donald J. Stewart wrote:
> > Is it possible to create 2 different time signatures on the same piece 
of
> > music?
> > 
> > I'm engraving a piece for 3 instruments and SATB choir where the
> > instruments and choir 'overlap' but don't necessarily stay 'in phase' 
with
> > one another.
> > 
> > I tried to start cadenza time in the instruments, while keeping the 
choir
> > in time (by deleting the cadenza time, then trying to restore a time
> > signature in each line), but that didn't work...
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> The documentation for this is at
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#poly
> metric-notation
> 
> Denemo has some commands already for generating some of the 
LilyPond
> syntax needed for this sort of thing. The command "Apparent Time
> Signature" for example generates the syntax
> 
> \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = 3/4
> 
> which you will find documented above. This, together with the \times x/
y
> syntax that the Arbitrary Tuplet command generates is enough for 
baroque
> scores where the bass has a different time signature to the solo part.
> For your purposes you will probably need quite a bit more of the syntax
> from that reference. Once you know what the LilyPond is that you want 
to
> generate then Denemo can be told to generate it - either using the
> simple "Insert LilyPond" commmands or with more elaborate methods 
using
> the Scheme window to generate new Denemo Commands. If you get to 
the
> point of knowing what the syntax is that you want (here the
> address@hidden list is *very* helpful) then I can help you create
> it from Denemo.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
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