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<font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">David,<br>
The only fundamentals text I have found that deals with beaming is the Zinn and Hegenson “Basics of Music : Op. 1,” published by Thomson/Schirmer. It even has drills to give them practice in proper beaming and discusses the relationship to meter quite a bit. We use it in the fundamentals review courses for our majors.<br>
Howard Cinnamon<br>
Coordinator of Music Theory,<br>
Hofstra University<br>
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David:<br>
I would be interested in seeing how you tackled the problem.<br>
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Paul Beaudoin, PhD<br>
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---- David Feurzeig <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="mozojo@gmail.com">mozojo@gmail.com</a></u></font>> wrote: <br>
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Collective Wisdom:<br>
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I find that entering students are ever more clueless regarding standard practice for notating rhythm with proper respect to meter. My hunch is that careless computer notation is to blame--including now second-order effects on students who don't necessarily use digital notation tools themselves, but see more and more abominably-notated rhythm in their band arrangements and other parts.<br>
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Oddly, I have not seen any standard theory or fundamentals texts that explains standard beaming and grouping both fully and clearly. So I have done so myself, in supplementary materials. Traditional practice is not all that hard to codify, and once codified, not hard to impart. My question is, is anyone familiar with any published text that *does* cover this adequately?<br>
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Thanks for any enlightenment.<br>
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David<br>
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David Feurzeig<br>
University of Vermont<br>
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