On Jul 13, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:

I've read this a few times, and it still doesn't make sense. If a sixth note is equal to a dotted eighth, that would make the time signature 1/6 equivalent to 3/8.

That's right.

And from what I know of math and music, that doesn't seem right to me.

It's not supposed to match normal math.

Putting it a different way, 6 sixth notes gives you a whole note, ...

No, it doesn't. You're taking the "sixth note" literally, as if it really were one-sixth of a whole. That's the false assumption that leads to the fallacy.


... but 6 dotted quarters only gives you a dotted half.

mdl

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