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## Re: TimeSignature with note in denominator

 From: Lukas-Fabian Moser Subject: Re: TimeSignature with note in denominator Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:44:02 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0

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When Thomas Adès switches from 4/4 to 4/5, there is no way of knowing which "graphical" note length (combination of notehead style and flag count) is supposed to be used for the basic unit (of which 4 make up a bar, and of which five equal the duration of a semibreve).
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Example:

\version "2.22"

\relative {
\time 4/5
c'4*4/5 c c c
\time 4/5
c'8*8/5 c c c
}

Which one of those bars is more natural than the other, and why?

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If you're tempted to answer "the first one, since 1/5 is very close to 1/4 and should therefore be represented by crotchets", then what about the following?
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\version "2.22"

\relative {
\time 4/6
c'4*4/6 c c c
\time 4/6
c'8*8/6 c c c
}

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(BTW, there's a "strange time signature" warning, but only for the second \time in each of the examples. This seems to be a bug.)
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Lukas

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