I can attest to the fact that unusual time signatures are becoming more prevalent - we
just performed a work by Thomas Adés that had 1/6, 4/6, 4/12 among other time
signatures.
At first I thought it was simply a way of making things even more difficult for the
performers, but after contemplation I decided that it was a very clever metric
modulation
technique: the "sixth" note is technically a dotted eighth note and a "twelfth note"
is a
dotted sixteenth note. Using these new time signnatures could allow you to shift the
pulse to these rhythmic units without the typical calculus equation-ish tempo
indication
that usually comes along with metric moduations.
As a composer, I find it very interesting - as a copyist I'm curious...we still haven't
ansswered the original question: how does one substitute non-traditional numbers into
the
lower section of the time signature?
-Rob
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Rob Deemer
Doctoral Candidate in Music Composition,
Assistant Director, UT New Music Ensemble
The University of Texas at Austin
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