Re: Band parts - a newbie's view

[Mats Bengtsson]

David Rogers wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Ralph Little wrote:
>
> > Cut-common is often found in band parts and effectively doubles the
> > pace, at least that is my interpretation.
>
>
> It all depends on the tempo markings, of course. It's quite possible to 
> have a slow 2/2. The real difference is in the accents and the "feel" of 
> the music. 2/2 flows differently from 4/4 because there are fewer beats 
> (and therefore fewer accents) per bar.
>
> As far as whether one uses numbers or c-shaped symbols, I think that the 
> c-shaped symbols are traditional in certain types of music, but that the 
> numbers seem to have become standard practice in modern music. It would 
> make sense to me for Lilypond to have choices like use-numbers or 
> use-symbols.

I think there have been other answers in this thread explaining how
to change the default layout to use numbers.

> (And what about the circle-with-a-line that Bach uses for 
> 16/8 in the gigue of the E major keyboard partita? Is that in Lilypond 
> somewhere, or is it too obscure to include such things?)

No problem, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html#time.ly

   /Mats

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