Re: "Compound" meter

> On 6 Jan 2026, at 10:16, Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Calling the time signatures in that NR section "complex" would make more sense to me
> 
> I could abide that.  :)
> 
> Other possibilities: “mixed meter” or “multi-meter”.

It seems that “complex” is another name for “irregular”, whereas “mixed” are combined meters. In the notation manual quoted before, the first example [1], using only a single top-level grouping, is irregular, whereas the second [2] is mixed. The third example [3] is mixed between an irregular and a regular meter.

1. \compoundMeter #'((2 2 2 8))
2. \compoundMeter #'((1 4) (3 8))
3. \compoundMeter #'((1 2 3 8) (3 4))