On 27 Mar 2008 at 0:12, John Howell wrote: > At 5:18 PM -0500 3/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Cut time in 3? Is that the Zeffiro Torna meter? > > Not in the Malipiero edition, if my memory is anywhere close to > accurate. But 3/2 is fairly common in later Baroque music where it's > an actual time signature and not a proportion.
I took the reference as referring to the 3/2 vs. 6/4 alternation. I've never thought of 3/2 as cut time in 3, mostly because cut time in the period I'm dealing with usually means *4/2*. The relationships between their triple and quadruple meters were really not what we would expect. -- 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
