Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext)

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 11/09/2015 01:47 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Is there a standard/convention/best practice on measure numbering in
> polymetric scores? I’m running into an issue of that myself (in my
> song “The Country Wife”), and can’t find anything definitive.
>
> Note: Gould (p. 484) writes, “Bar numbers should not be used in music
> in which individual performers have different numbers of bars or
> where barlines do not coincide”… but I’d like to at least have a
> non-recommended alternative.

What do you need the bar numbers for?  I suspect rehearsal marks would 
fit the bill, no?  If not, why not?

~Chris
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