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Example 820 Time signature #7

Open Wwilli04 opened 4 years ago

Wwilli04 commented 4 years ago

Ex. 820 has two groups in different time signatures, with bar lines in different places, and one group has a tempo half of the other, which Sibelius is not capable of handling. ex 820.pdf

craigsapp commented 4 years ago

The best thing to do for this example is to have two Sibelius files: (1) for the boys/organ, and (2) for the chamber orchestra. I can then merge into a single Humdrum file. There will be complications in rendering the notation with verovio, however, because non-aligned bars are not handled well in MEI/verovio.

For the time signature 2/2 3/2 in the top parts, this is a shorthand for displaying the time signature at the beginning of each measure. Since this is not notation for performance, but rather for analysis, it would be best to write out the time signature change for each measure. Even if we want to display it as in the score, there should be an explicit meter change in each measure to allow for identification of the metric position of notes more explicitly than in the short-hand notation.

I have also made a request for displaying such time signatures in verovio: https://github.com/rism-ch/verovio/issues/1268