Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Kieren MacMillan" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing


> Hi Phil,

> > Early music tends to work like that

> Really? What editions are you using? I’ve spent a great deal of my life 
> singing and
> conducting music composed and/or engraved before ca. 1920, and have found
> it almost invariably uses *beaming* (as well as slurs and extensions, 
> sometimes)
> to indicate melismas — *that* I find intensely hard to sightread (and 
> teach to singers).

When I say early, I mean early.  Medieval and some renaissance, renotated.

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Phil Holmes