On 7-Jul-05, at 11:00 AM, John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Why is there so much confusion over compound time?
Well, perhaps I'm too dense to follow your reasoning, but your two
statements above do seem to be mutually contradictory!
If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If it sounds like triplets,
it's triplets. Q.E.D! Its barcarole is worse than its bite!
By definition a triplet is 3 in the time of 2.
That's different than a compound meter. There's nothing to dispute here.
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with best wishes,
John
http://abram.ca/
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