Re: A Couple of Midi Tempo and TimeSig Questions
Re: A Couple of Midi Tempo and TimeSig Questions
- Subject: Re: A Couple of Midi Tempo and TimeSig Questions
- From: Peter Zegelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:43:23 +1000
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 05:07 AM, Jeff Evans wrote:
Peter - re the Time Signature question - one can change time signatures
anywhere in music, but if you put a new time signature in the middle
of a
bar of the previous signature what you're really doing is changing
signatures twice. Say you have 4/4 time and switch to 3/4 halfway
through a
measure. What you now have is really 4/4, then a bar of 2/4 that is not
marked as such (and should be for clarity) and then the 3/4.
But a new meter signature should be accompanied by a new barline,
because a new signature implies a new downbeat will follow.
So you can do whatever you want in notation as long a the musician
can
read it and understand the desired effect. That's the standard in my
mind.
But for interpreting MIDI events I'd just do it literally and put the
new
meter signature where the file had it, leaving behind an unmarked
incomplete
measure.
<snip>
Jeff - thanks for that explanation - I had no idea that it is more or
less legal! I'm going to take your suggestion and start a new bar even
if the old one is incomplete.
Peter
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