Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> writes: > Hi Lukas, > >> Which one of those bars is more natural than the other, and why? > > That question has a more specific answer: According to Gould, one of > them is not just “more natural” but *correct*, and the other is not > just “less natural” but *incorrect*. ;) > > When dividing any note duration, there is a specific formula when to > move from one sub-duration to the next smaller sub-duration (e.g. in > tuplets of varying number).
If that were so, sextuplets would not be a thing. Nor would be duplets. At any rate, if music were only allowed to express Gould-correct notation, we would not be having this discussion in the first place. -- David Kastrup
