Re: Compound time signature style

[Hans Aberg]

> On 4 Nov 2014, at 10:49, Marc Hohl <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Am 04.11.2014 um 07:48 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> If the simple-fraction components of a compound time signature respected 
>>> the time signature style, would that qualify as useful or as undesirable?  
>>> For example,
>>> 
>>>    2 + 3                2 + 3   4
>>>    ----- + C     vs.    ----- + -
>>>      4                    4     4
>> 
>> Undesirable in my book.
>> 
> 
> I overlooked the fact that the denominators are the same, ...

It could be interpreted as a compound meter 2+3 followed by one in 4, 
indicating that the metric accent on 4 should be stronger than the one on 3. 
This is different from 2+3+4, which means that it is unspecified, or possibly 
that they are about the same.