Re: looking for a style guide

[Shane Brandes]

Xavier,

 Meter and rhythm will determine the beaming and breaking of beams in
a piece. The primary governor of beaming is of course the time
signature. So 4/4 determines at the 8th note level 4 groupings of 8ths
(two at a time). Cut-time looks like 4/4 but will break the 8ths in
two groups of 4s. You appear to have a mixed meter thing going on in
your example which might make one think of the first half of your
measure is working in 1/2 time and the second half in 2/4 time so the
pulse is sightly upset from a simple 4/4 if that is the intent (having
a strong beat on the 1st eighth and two slightly stronger beats on the
5th and 7th eighths) then I would be prone to writing the last measure
as half note quarter rest eighth rest eighth rest. In any event, you
can re-beam note groupings at your discretion to indicate and
emphasize whatever rhythmic pulse suits the piece and it is not
necessary to stick with one thing. This occurs often enough in music
such that any competent reader will understand without having to be
supplied some ugly compound time signature such as 1/2 2/4 every other
measure, unless it is something truly unusual like 2/3 5/4 2/4 time.
I hope that helps your thinking about how to get the necessary
information to the performer.

regards,

Shane Brandes

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Xavier Noria <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know
> if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in
> pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things.
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