Questions tagged [beaming]
For questions about use of beaming in notation. Questions should most likely also contain the notation tag.
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Question about beaming in 6/4 and irregular beaming
In 6/4 can I beam by 2/4 + 2/4 + 2/4 or is it strictly 3/4 + 3/4?
And also I didn't find a good explanation of irregular beaming in cases where time signature constantly changing from bar to bar (not ...
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Question about cross-staff beaming, unnecessary rests, Debussy
Two questions:
1) Why in Debussy's Arabesque No. 1 the first two measures written without the rests? What's the rule?
2) If I write notes in different clefs and beam them together, what clef will ...
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Theory- grouping notes
In a 4/4 time signature, can I write a half note on the 2nd and 3rd beat Or should I split the half note into quarter notes with a tie to show the middle of the bar?
Also, in 7/8 with (4,3)as main ...
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First note of a beamed group must never fall on an off beat, unless it is preceded by a rest of a dotted note
Here's an image related to my question: https://i.stack.imgur.com/zU0ZO.png
Below this image it says:
Bar 3 is incorrect, because the 3rd quaver in the group should have a stronger accent than ...
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Grouping and beaming 6/8 time signature
I am trying to get this right but don't get the second part where there is a eighth note and followed by 2 sixteenth note
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Beam slope indicating accelerando or rallentando
Has anybody ever heard of a modern composition notation convention where sloping beams indicate acc. and rall.? A composer colleague of mine who always uses flat horizontal beams claims this (without ...
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Placing beam between staves with autochanging voice in LilyPond
I have a PianoStaff with two voices on the right hand. The lower voice with eighths is spread across the staves with \autochange and the additional pitch parameter nicely controls the turning point.
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Stop Lilypond from placing beam around second voice
I have two voices in the right-hand staff. I'm not sure why Lilypond is doing what it is (see freehand circle) but I would like it to stop. The beam should ideally be somewhere near the red line, with ...
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Why are these quavers beamed this way?
I don't know why the quavers in the bass are beamed across barlines the way they are. Does it signify phrasing or is there another reason for it?
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Question about beaming in LilyPond
I've recently installed LilyPond and Denomo and found them to be great tools. However I can not seem to learn how to make a beaming pattern like this:
This is the bar in Denemo gui:
My LilyPond ...
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Why do these notes have two sets of beams?
I'm puzzled by the bar ringed in red from a piece for Celtic harp (La danseuse T'ang, in Images de Chine, by Monique Grabus).
There are two sets of beams, and every note has both an upward stem and ...
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In the Hanon piano exercises, why is there a beam joining two groups of 16th notes?
The first measure of the Hanon exercises has a set of four 16th notes that make up a quarter note, and another set of 4 16th notes that make up another quarter note. This adds to 2 quarter notes for ...
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Why is Bonse Aba beamed the way it is?
Bonse Aba — a Zambian children's song — is written in 2/4. However, the beaming, as shown in this link, does not appear to reflect the quarter note main beats. Instead, it starts beams on beat 1 and ...
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Grouping Syncopated Notes
How would I group the following:
|qqqsq.qqsq.qqsq.qz|
Where q=quaver, s=semiquaver, z=quarter rest, .=dot.
Assume 4 q to the beat.
By "group" I mean, join together the beams. I know one should ...
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Beams in classical vocal music
I had a look at different operas and songs with piano accompaniment. I noticed that one often does not connect beams that one usually would in instrumental music (such as four sixteenth notes in 4/4), ...
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What is the difference between grouped and separated quarter notes
Let us consider the 2/4 time. Now, let's say I split up all the beats by 2 in one bar. This gives me a total of four 1/8th notes. Now, in some cases, I've seen that, they are grouped as 2 pairs or ...
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What difference does the direction of a stem/beam make?
Guys I have a question concerning stems and beams.
The stems in the first bar are all upward and in the second bar one part is downward.
The beams are different in both parts.
The question is: What ...
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Is it possible to use notes on 2 different staves in Lilypond with one beam? If so, how?
Suppose I want to use eighth notes which differ widely in pitch, so that half of the eighth notes fall in a bass clef and half of them are best represented in a treble clef. Is there a way to use one ...
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Clef between a beam? proper notation?
Is that F Clef between the beam of those two notes in the 3rd bar proper notation? if so, what does it mean? I'm guessing it's the same as the G Clef that precedes it, so that the next note would be C ...
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What does this notation (bar joining notes) mean?
Specifically I'd like to know about the apparent joining of a dotted quaver and a semiquaver in the second row of my photo.
Is that what these are?
If that is what is meant then how does this differ ...
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Why are notes beamed across the barline in this piece?
In the piece Three Pieces for String Quartet by Igor Stravinsky I've noticed something very odd that I cannot explain. There are several places in the piece where eighth notes are beamed across ...
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How should 3 notes joined with 1 beam line drawn on 5-staff-line?
Straight to the question, if I have this following numerical scores notation :
4/4, Do=C
How to draw it into staff musical notation (If you have better way to say this musical notation type, please ...
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Fractional Beam Heading
What are the correct orientation of fractional beams?
Is it true that they should always head to left except if it is the leftmost note of the outer beam (when they are forced to head to the right). ...
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Notating 6 (or more) triplets with a single beam?
Does the bar labeled "One six note phrase" conform to notation standards?
All the examples of triplets that I've seen before have always had the beams break every three notes, similar to the "Manual ...
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What music notation software can handle this complex beaming?
Update: It looks like the votes are clearly in favor of Lilypond. While Sibelius and Finale appear to be the "canonical" solutions, and MuseScore has a nice showing (albeit using a "development" ...
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Beaming in different time signatures
I'm studying music theory in the UK, aiming for ABRSM Grade 5, currently working for grade 3. I'm having trouble grasping the rules for when to beam quavers.
In my study book, by Eric Taylor, I see ...
