Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
Owain Sutton wrote:
(7/10, 13/20)
Why? It's easily playable, and it's something that cannot possibly be
notated another way, unlike x/12. And, like it or not, it's found its
way into mainstream notation and publication.
I've never seen it. If I bought a piece of music and I saw 13/20 I would
have no clue how to interpret it. My best guess would be 13 notes to the bar
all equal to a quintuplet division of a quarter. Basically 2 sets of 5
sixteenths with a 5 under them, and 3 extra. Am I close?
Spot on
Seriously, the set of musicians who would even want to think about timing so
hard to get that even close is small.
Sure it's small. Sure, writing complex music decreases the number of
players able & willing to play it. If a composer is aware of this,
should they not still be able to choose to write such music?
Much smaller than the still-small set
of musicians who can play a quintuplet accurately in the first place.
That's a small group?!
I personally question the value of having such rhythms in music when there's
plenty of life left in the ones most people can actually play, but hey, you
write what you like, no problem with me.
What's the line from Schoenberg - something like "There's many good
tunes still to be written in C major"?
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