On 6-Jul-05, at 5:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Abram wrote:
A twelfth note is a triplet eighth note. They are sometimes used
in new
music (eg Mark-Anthony Turnage has used it frequently I believe)
Henry
Cowell was way ahead of the game with this sort of thinking.
Why is 12/12 not like 12/8? Because 12/8 is not triplets.
Yes, I know it sounds like triplets, but it's not.
You're really splitting hairs here -- putting 3 evenly spaced notes
within one beat sounds like triplets to me, no matter how it's
represented in the time signature.
Yes it sounds the same, like "witch" sounds like "which" and like 4/8
sounds like 4/16 and 4/4.
What's the difference? Are you trying to say that triplets are only
triplets if they are 3 notes played in the time normally occupied by 2
of the same notes, and since in 12/8 the 8ths aren't played in the
time
normally occupied by 2 8ths they aren't really triplets?
Yes, by definition triplets are 3 notes in the time of 2.
What does a 12th-note look like?
It looks like a triplet 8th, because it is one.
The usefulness of this is that one can make a measure of 11/12 which
is essentially one triplet-eighth short of 4/4.
I'm sure not many people use this, but when I worked as a
professional copyist in the 90's I was asked to do this sort of thing.
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with best wishes,
John
http://abram.ca/
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