On 15 Apr 2007 at 14:46, Charles Small wrote: > The phenomenon in question occurs in Bach's Orgelbuchlein, #10 (In > Dulce Jubilo). The piece is in 3/2, and there are running triplets, > three equal notes to each half-note (minim). In modern usage, we'd > write a triplet of quarters (crotchets), but Bach writes triplets of > _8ths_ (quavers). For those who'd like to see it, I've posted two > snippets from the Gesellschaft edition at > http://home.earthlink.net/~mallentn/VVWMusEx.html
Have you looked at the NBA? Perhaps the critical report discusses this. My guess is that this is an artifact of the older practice of black vs. white notation. You can see something similar in one of Couperin's Tenebrae Lessons, which is in 3/2 also, but with 8th-note subdivisions with white noteheads. I'm foggy on the history of coloration so can't completely explain it, but I do know that there were multiple traditions of older rhythmic notation that continued to exist side-by-side with the "newer" practices. Surely somebody on the list can amplify the above with some actual facts! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
