Possibly - consider when I composed this in 2012 I wasn’t thinking anybody would see it besides me, plus, it never occurred to me 2/4 would be any more difficult for someone to read than 2/2 or 4/4. Then again, I had a friend once who also had a doctorate in music and was an accomplished guitarist tell me he could not read my score in 2/1 though it was clearly subdivided. He also couldn’t read an 8va octave sign. The score had to be changed so all his notes perched atop racks of ledger lines.
Is there any reason why you notated that in 2/4 rather than the 4/4 that most hornpipes are written in? I find it far harder to read tunes that have semiquavers - it takes more effort to distinguish a quaver from a semiquaver than distinguishing a crotchet from a quaver.
Actually there is - if I wrote it in 4/4 using quarters, halves & eights ABC would play it back with double the accompaniment notes in each measure. bass/chord/bass/chord. This way I get one bass note and one chord. This was before I started using more programmed accompaniments.
Possibly - consider when I composed this in 2012 I wasn’t thinking anybody would see it besides me, plus, it never occurred to me 2/4 would be any more difficult for someone to read than 2/2 or 4/4. Then again, I had a friend once who also had a doctorate in music and was an accomplished guitarist tell me he could not read my score in 2/1 though it was clearly subdivided. He also couldn’t read an 8va octave sign. The score had to be changed so all his notes perched atop racks of ledger lines.
Is there any reason why you notated that in 2/4 rather than the 4/4 that most hornpipes are written in? I find it far harder to read tunes that have semiquavers - it takes more effort to distinguish a quaver from a semiquaver than distinguishing a crotchet from a quaver.
Actually there is - if I wrote it in 4/4 using quarters, halves & eights ABC would play it back with double the accompaniment notes in each measure. bass/chord/bass/chord. This way I get one bass note and one chord. This was before I started using more programmed accompaniments.
Would 2/2 have kept the note lengths and given you the rhythm you wanted?