Re: faulty beam defaults

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Samstag, 13. März 2010 22:38:05 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> With the current mechanism for setting beaming, it's not possible to meet
> every desire for the default beaming of eighth notes in 3/4 time.
> 
> One can find published rules for beaming eighth notes 2 2 2, 4 2, 2 4, and
> 6.
> 
> The default currently in place is 6.

I have to agree with Carl here that 6 is the best value for the default. I 
looked into several piano reductions of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang as well as 
masses by Michael Haydn and Mozart. In all of them the default in 3/4 is to 
beam all 6 eighths together. And if there is a dotted quarter note, the 
following three eighths are beamed like lilypond does it (16th notes are 
beamed there in groups of four, just like lilypond does it, too). 

Cheers,
Reinhold
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