Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I have no patience these days with the Nietzschean cliché, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.' I've found that the deepest pain holds no meaning. It is not purifying. It is not ennobling. It does not make you a better human being. It just is.

"All the worst pain does is reduce us to our most primal animal. We want it to stop. We want to survive. It short-circuits any sense of self, diminishes us to a bundle of biological reflexes." -- Dana Jennings, "Pain Beyond Words, and an Impulse Just to Endure", 2009-09-21, New York Times [thanks to realinterrobang for pointing it out along with related thoughts about disability.]

For the musicians reading my journal (or just randomly dropping in), a question: Which of these two ways of transcribing "Como poden per sas culpas" do you find easier to read (less confusing, less distracting, more obvious)?

Which would you rather sight-read from, cold? Is it the same one you'd rather have on your stand for reminders after already having rehearsed the piece?

(Or would you write it as being in 12/8?)

I didn't know abcm2ps would do that double time-signature thing in the first version of the tune until I needed it for this, and I tried the most obvious syntax, and it just worked. Maybe I should read the help files more carefully. Then again, as long as it just does the right thing when I guess, R'ingTFM seems kinda less-urgent than some other things ...

[Edit at 2009-10-06 16:15, to add:] I experimented a little with abcm2ps and found that it considers "M:6/8(3/4)" a valid time signature, producing this, which at least avoids being mistaken for either 36/48 or 63/84, though it does nothing to address the complaint about finding oneself doing the math on each measure.