At 01:55 PM 7/13/2004, Rob Deemer wrote: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.
I've read this a few times, and it still doesn't make sense. If a sixth note is equal to a dotted eighth, that would make the time signature 1/6 equivalent to 3/8. And from what I know of math and music, that doesn't seem right to me. Putting it a different way, 6 sixth notes gives you a whole note, but 6 dotted quarters only gives you a dotted half.
Aaron.
Yes, you are right. I think Rob's math was a little off. A sixth note is equal to one quarter in a quarter-note triplet. A twelfth note is one eighth-note triplet.
And I think you meant to say "6 dotted EIGHTHS only gives you a dotted half" instead of "6 dotted quarters only gives you a dotted half." The math is not readily obvious until you've worked with it a bit, you'll admit.
Christopher
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