Oh, that IS ingenious! I had just finished reading the post (the
comments reminded me of a discussion we had here on the List a couple
of years back) and was about to try it out myself (deadline done and
sent off, rest of the long weekend free.)
I wonder what Dennis B-K would have said?
Nice work on the correct playback, which is always the problem with
these things. It is always possible to NOTATE it, but to HEAR it in
playback is another question (and it is just this kind of thing I
want to be able to hear back accurately.)
Christopher
On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hey all,
Never mind, I figured it out.
For the curious:
First enter the figure as regular quarter notes and eighth notes.
Next, for the bars with partial tuplets, create a "4 quarters in
the space of 6 quarters" tuplet over the entire bar. This turns all
quarter notes in the measures into quarter note triplets.
Next, we need to change the eighth notes into non-tuplet eighth
notes. This can be done by applying a nested tuplet to the eighth
notes: "four eighth notes in the space of sixth eighth notes."
Finally, hide all the triplets and render the partial triplets
graphically.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 21 Mar 2008, at 9:39 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Inspired by this post by Kyle Gann:
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2008/03/
dont_blame_me_it_was_henry_cow.html
I set out to recreate the brief example from Michael Gordon's
"Trance" (great piece, BTW) in Finale -- with correct playback --
and quickly hit a brick wall.
The rhythm is (with "e" = eighth note, and "3" = one quarter-note
triplet):
4/4 | e e e e 3 3 3 | 3 e e e e 3 3 | 3 e e e e 3 3 | 3 3 e e e e
3 | 2/4 3 3 3 |
I couldn't figure out how to get Finale to accept the incomplete
quarter note triplet. What I need here "one quarter note in the
space of 2/3rds of a quarter note," but the Finale interface
doesn't provide for that. Is there another way?
Cheers,
- Darcy
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