At 12:43 PM +0100 6/29/05, Owain Sutton wrote:
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
keith helgesen schrieb:
I would query your assertion that 6/4 "traditionally" is 2 X 3/4.
From my experience 6/4 is generally 3 X 2/4.
Is it? I doubt that for most music written before 1900, after that
I guess things are a little more complex.
I'd be interested to know about any piece in 6/4 before 1850 which
is clearly 3x2/4, do you know one?
What's the earliest we can go back to? ;)
There are mensural pieces, perhaps as early as the 13th century but
certainly by the 14th, for which the original notation and the
relations between tempus and prolatio have to be resolved when
transcribing into modern notation. By the 14th century it was quite
possible to indicate either interpretation. And there are dance
breaks in Act I of Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" which go like the wind when
the exact interpretation of both mensuration signs and proportion
signs is observed.
John
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