Selon Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>: > > forgot to answer this one... > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, patko wrote: > > > If the rythm is played like every step with no accent, no one would make > > a difference between 11:8 , 4:4, 7:16 ... > > I always thought of the metric as something that happens not only with > rythmic patterns, but also with melodic patterns. I mean that the melody > is making another kind of rhythm. Usually, the bars are aligned with > changes of chords and scales : the frequency and phase of the bars is > chosen to most closely match the greatest number of chords and scales. > That's a lot of the reason why plain 4/4 rock music is written with strong > 2nd and 4th beats, instead of shifting the whole bar system by one beat > just so that the strong beats be numbered 1st and 3rd. >
That is right, in fact any of the five musical parameters (tune, tone, volume, space, length) could be modulated for giving a metric, even different metrics at the same time. > > In fact even in a simple 4:4 bar, the need for a variable metronome is > > quite necessary for orchestras. Different sections don't play their > > parts at the same tempo, if you pay attention to it, technicaly a > > section would play better if the tempo is slower or higher for different > > parts, that's why there is conductor. > > I don't believe that... I mean, for pieces that don't make explicit use of > battements. > > I always thought that a large part of the reason why the conductor is > there, is because on a large stage, if musicians only listen to each > other, they will be out of phase due to sound propagation delays, and if > we are to be picky about it, then we need a guy in the middle to sync the > whole thing in a non-auditive manner. (Of course, a conductor does a lot > more than that, but that's not what I say). > > (If the stage is 15 metres across, the latency between one musician at one > end and one musician at the other end is about 44 ms...) > If I have understood the main discussion, it is about using a metronome, admitting that each stand has an earphone that play a metronome, there would be no latency taken into account, we could even reduce latency that would come from the percussions that are always at the backside of those kinds of orchestras. > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
