On 8 Jul 2005 at 10:21, Christopher Smith wrote: > My trick was (for 4 sixteenths, a quintuplet, and a quarter note) to > say out loud "TEE-ry tee-ry MATH-e-ma-ti-cal TAH." My nine year old > can do it (I tested it out on him.)
Hmm. You pronounce "mathematical" differently than I do. My rhythm for it is 8th 8th 16th 16th 8th, with "ma-ti" being a subdivision of the length of the other syllables. In other words, four feet. Yes, I can distort the pronunciation to be a quintuplet. I don't see quintuplets as terribly difficult by themselves, falling within a regular meter. Scriabin wrote a prelude (op. 11, #14) in 15/8 (5+5+5/8) that uses the same texture and affect as Chopin's G Minor prelude (#22, in 6/8). I played it in college, and it really wasn't hard. But it had the quituplet beat as a given texture throughout, not switching back and forth between beats of 5/16ths and beats of some other subdivision. It's the switching about between subdivisions that I think is something that musicians generally don't do too well or too accurately. Yes, the finest musicians do, but most of us don't have the privilege of working with them, so we are, I think, fated to have such things realized only imperfectly. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
