Re: Polymetric(?) time signature

[Hans Åberg]

> On 29 Apr 2019, at 18:51, Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Hans Åberg wrote:
> 
>>> I have a piece of music where measures have 4/4 time and 5/4 and it looks
>>> like this:
>>> 
>>> {
>>> \time 4/4
>>> c4 c c c
>>> \time 5/4
>>> c c c c c
>>> \time 4/4
>>> c c c c
>>> \time 5/4
>>> c c c c c
>>> }
>>> and the pattern goes on like that to the very end of piece.
>> 
>> If it is regular like that, you might check if should be in 9/4, which is a 
>> common time signature.
> 
> It's a common time signature if 9/4 is subdivided as 3 * 3/4. A regular 
> alternation of different time signatures isn't that uncommon either.

One can write
  \time #’(2 2 2 3) 9/4