Re: Autobeaming

[David Kastrup]

Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

> Take tuplets. If there are quintuplets, then it should be a 5' unless
> specified as typically 2'+3' or 3'+2'.
>
> For sextuplets, there is a convention that the should be in 3, so
> there is an implicit rule 3'+3' - there should be no subbeaming of the
> 3'. But a compose might want to change that.

I am not sure I understand that.  Why use sextuplets when you could just
use triplets as 3'+3'?  I should think that sextuplets make most sense
when you need 2'+2'+2' as a rhythmic pattern.

I have had very little exposure to them, actually, that's just my
mathematical gut feeling.

-- 
David Kastrup