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Re: Cowell/Ferneyhough Unconventional Meters
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Re: Cowell/Ferneyhough Unconventional Meters |
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Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:23:53 +0200 |
On Jul 5, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 08:57 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Joey wrote:
>>
>>> In Ferneyhough's etudes transcendentales,
>>> he employs meters such as 2/12 or 2/10,
>>> acting as literal subdivisions of the semi-breve.
>>
>> The easiest way would be to create an override for the time signature
>> stencil:
>
> No, you don't need to be so complicated. :-)
>
>
True, but I say "easiest" because the solution of creating a non-standard time
signature will lead to a lot of changing between dead and not-dead tuplet
stencils.
nixtup = {\once \override TupletBracket #'stencil = ##f \once \override
TupletNumber #'stencil = ##f }
{
\time 2/10
\nixtup
\times 4/5 { c'8 c'8 }
\nixtup
\times 4/5 { c'8 c'8 }
\nixtup
\times 4/5 {
% no nix tup because this is a nested tuplet that we want to see.
\times 2/3 { c'8 c'8 c'8 }
}
}
Whereas the time signature stencil change avoids this sort of book-keeping.
However, if you are harvesting data from engravers and/or using MIDIs, then
Joseph is absolutely right - \time 2/10 is the best way to do it.
Cheers,
MS