Often a piece is easier to read noted one way but easier to conduct another. The black marks on the page are not the performance.

I recently arranged a piece in 2/2 with a 1/2 measure every fifth bar. My instructions are to conduct it in one. This means that every fifth bar is beat half the time of the others. The syncopation is much smoother and easier to perform that way. I tried a number of ways to notate the rhythm before deciding that was the best–easy to do once I looked at it from the performer's perspective.

Oh, some conductor will ignore me and beat the half note, making it harder on the singers and giving the performance a choppy feel that is counter to what I wrote. I can only make the suggestion. That's the reality of performance sometimes.

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