Michael Edwards wrote: [snip]
(Contrary to what some people said earlier in the discussion on swing rhythms - namely that swing is almost always notated in straight notes - the middle section in this piece is notated mostly in dotted rhythms. Brubeck's scores - at least the piano versions I have - often use dotted rhythms in this manner.)
I can well understand Brubeck using the dotted rhythmic notation for the swung sections because much of his music has straight 8th's mixed in. Blue Rondo a la Turk is one such work -- in the 9/8 sections the 8ths are played straight, so he would need to show some distinction visually that the 4/4 bars should be interpreted differently.
What would be interesting would be to see how he notated 8th's in his pieces where all the 8th's are supposed to swing.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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