Re: Beams not connecting

[Hans Aberg]

Here is a link showing one variation of the meter in Bernstein's song  
"America":
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_%28Leonard_Bernstein_song%29
In this writing, it alternates between 6/8 and 3/4. But I have also  
seen the 3/4 written as 6/8, with beaming indicating the 6 subdivided  
as 2+2+2. This way of interpreting 6/8 is not possible in CPP, so if  
sticking to that, the song must be written as an alteration between  
6/8 and 3/4. I do not know how the original is written.

The point is though, that a modern composer may write it as 6/8 where  
some 6s are divided as 3+3 and some as 2+2+2, only giving hints to it  
from the beaming.

  Hans Åberg