Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
But your point about the 31ths comes up even when the experts are
trying to make this all logical and easy -- Read's book, if I remember
right, gets tangled up in 11ths. I've seen many different choices
in actual music. As I wrote cmn, it really dawned on me how illogical
music notation is; its real task is to communicate between composer
and player (or reader anyway), and there you constantly hit questions
of expectations and clarity, etc -- I should write a book.
Hi everyone:
Just FYI, Read says on p.188 of his book :
"If the time unit is a quarter note (as in 5/4, 4/4, or 3/4), then an
irregular group of 11 notes occupying three beats (equivalent to six
eighth-notes) would be beamed as eighth notes. In the same measure [i.e.
meter], an irregular group of 13 notes would be beamed as sixteenth notes."
Best,
dp
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