On 5/29/2019 6:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Giovanni,
I can't figure that rhythm; how on earth you can write it? two dotted
halves makes six quarter, not five. You can find such rhythms in
contemporary ('new complexity') composers, but they are wrong (and silly).
I don't know the music Giovanni is engraving, but I can see where it
would be easy to play such a tuplet: In 5/4 music, that would just be a
way of getting two equally spaced notes in a single measure.
But it's a perfectly good tuplet. Just as in 4/4 the traditional
8th-note triplet tells the musician to play 3 8th-notes in the time
ordinarily taken by 2 8th-notes, so, too, can the tuplet that Giovanni
describes fit. Also in 4/4, a 16th-note sextuplet tells the musician to
play 6 16th notes in the time ordinarily taken by 4 16th notes. For
that sort of tuplet, the musician plays more notes in the time
ordinarily taken by fewer notes. The same with the example Giovanni
gave -- yes, two dotted half notes equals 6 quarter notes, just as 3 8th
notes in a triplet equal a dotted-quarter, even though we are asked to
play them in time alloted to an undotted-quarter.
Yes, that same rhythm could be written by half-note-tied-to-8th-note,
8th-note-tied-to-half-note (as was already pointed out by someone else),
but when we are engraving music for someone else we are supposed to do
what the client wants if possible.
All Giovanni asked was how to accomplish what he's being paid to do, not
whether any of us think it's a musically sound way of doing it.
--
*****
David H. Bailey
[email protected]
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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