Re: Autobeaming

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 12:27:25 schrieb 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.

In several violin parts, sextuplets are real sextuplets without any 
subdividing. The beaming should also span all six notes in that case.

Cheers,
Reinhld
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