On Sep 17, 2016, at 5:42 AM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
On 17.09.2016 08:08, Kim Shrier wrote:
I am re-typsetting a piece from a modern (1950’s) edition
of some 14’th century music, in order to make it easier to
read and play from. It has a time signature that looks like:
3
2 x -
4
If I may give some counsel here: Make it easy and just use 6/4. There’s no
additional information we gain from the extraordinary 2x3/4, and IIUC using
meters of 6 is very common in transcriptions of such early music.
I think that preserving the time signatures as they are would be
better. the 2 x 3/4 was just one example. The piece starts off
in 2 x 2/4 goes to 2 x 6/8 then 3 x 6/8 then back to 2 x 2/4 and
ends in 2 x 3/4. The second part starts in 2 x 6/8, goes to 3 x 6/8,
2 x 3/4, 3 x 3/4, 2 x 3/4, and ends in 2 x 6/8. The first number
tells you how many major pulses are in a measure and the fraction
tells you how to subdivide the pulse.