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Nitrox32
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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 9:10 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hello. I'm writing a piece in 2/4 time.  Should a rhythmic value of 1 and 1/2 beats followed by a single eighth note be notated as a dotted quarter note followed by the single eighth note or as a quarter note tied to the first of two beamed eighth notes?
 
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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 9:25 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
That depends on the context. Normally I'd opt for the dotted quarter-eighth because it's less cluttered and easier to read. If, however, you're notating polyphonic music and one voice has a quarter followed by two eighths, it might under some circumstances look better and be easier to read if the other voice used the quarter-tie-eighth eighth method. This is one of those examples where you have to make the decision based on what looks good and reads well since both methods are essentially correct.

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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 10:31 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I should also mention that this is a concert band piece. 
 
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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 1:37 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In a 2/4 measure, a dotted quarter following by an eighth is the clearest way to do this. In such a short measure I can't see how anyone could be confused by it. The intent of notation should be to make things as clear and quickly understood as possible, not adhere to a theory that gets in the way.

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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 2:27 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Thanks, that answers my question.

 

Aric

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  		   Posted 12/20/2008 2:40 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I totally agree with dotted quarter followed by an 8th note. Having intensely studied the Dover collection of Scott Joplin's piano rags over the past 3 years, I can see many instances where it was notated quarter note tied to an 8th note following by an eight note. It doesn't look good. But it just shows you that there was a time when the notation was done the "other way." (And certainly not in every piano rags that he wrote.... instances of dotted quarters followed by 8ths are rare in piano rags, but do occur at the end of sections from time to time.)

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  		   Posted 12/22/2008 10:49 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ron. said...
In a 2/4 measure, a dotted quarter following by an eighth is the clearest way to do this.
Absolutely the clearest.  And this rule prevails in my mind over any other "accademically correct" alternative.

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  		   Posted 12/22/2008 4:09 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Notation should clearly show the rhythmic subdivision of the measure.

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  		   Posted 12/23/2008 5:07 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If you have another part playing a slurred quarter to the eighth, then write it tied with a slur.


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