> I belive it is not really neccessary to define the beat of allegro in > Balkan music (like 3+3+2), I've never heard of such a definition in any > other music notation context. And for sure it would be an abuse of the > classical music's tempo word "Allegro".
I just fished out my copy of Maud Karpeles' "Folk Songs of Europe" (1956). She has: - a Latvian song in 3/4:4/4, Moderato patetico - a Czech song in 2/4:3/4, Andante - a Hungarian song with no time signature, Parlando - a Romanian song, ditto, Vivo - a Macedonian song in 7/16, Allegro giocoso - a Dutch song mixing 9/8, 6/8 and 3/8, Allegro - an English song in 5/4, Allegretto e semplice etc. Italian tempo names are used all the time by ethnomusicologists. Or if you want one from an entirely non-Western context, here's one from a collection of Kurdish folk songs. The songs are given in the original Kurdish, the commentary is in Turkish, and the tempo markings are entirely in Italian. No metronome marks at all and no explanation of the markings; the reader is expected to know, and if they'd gone through the standard Turkish high school music syllabus, they would. X:1 T:Hey lo, Seni B:Mehmet Bayrak: Kurt Halk Turkuleri, Ozge Yayinlari, 1991 Z:Jack Campin 2001 M:8/8 L:1/8 Q:Moderato N:Bar 6 is (3B,/F/E/- E E/ D D< C- C (3D/(D/C/)| in the N:book, which doesn't add up so I'm assuming it's a typo K:B Minor A F2 A/F/ A F2 A/F/ | A F2 A/F/ F E> (D E/)F/ | F E2 E/D/ D C2 D/E/ | F< D D< C C< B,- B, (3C/(D/C/) | E/D/ D/C/ C< B,- B, B, B,2 | (3B,/F/E/- E E< D D< C- C (3D/(D/C/) | F< D D< C C< B,- B, (3C/(D/C/) | E< D D< C C< B,- B,- (3B,/B,/B,/|] > And if ever it will be possible to use 3+3+2/8 in an abc M: field, > we can find a way to define allegro under such a M: field. I don't understand this at all. Why would you want to roll tempo definitions into a field already designed for something entirely different? Are you suggesting this would make it *easier*? How? =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
