On 5/30/2019 5:14 AM, Paolo Alberto Rismondo wrote:
Hi,
we are dealing with arithmetic, not even with mathematics; 3+3=6, no
matter what you can 'feel'. The musical expression comes through the
notation, but it is not the notation.
How do you feel about 8th-note triplets in music where the quarter note
gets the beat?
After all, following your logic it makes no sense because 3 8th-notes
equal a dotted-quarter and after all you tell us that we are dealing
with arithmetic. Your last sentence in the part I quoted has no special
bearing in this particular situation -- it's true of all musical
notation. Musical notation is only a graphical set of instructions of
what we hope to hear from the musicians. It's a set of instructions,
not the final sound. That's true of all notation, whether tuplets or not.
Yes, 3+3=6 (in Giovanni's example) -- but the very nature of tuplets
asks us to play a certain amount of music in the time usually occupied
by a different amount of music. I don't understand your aversion to
this particular tuplet, unless you have an aversion to all tuplets
because the arithmetic never adds up correctly until you take the ratio
of the tuplet into account. The very common 8th-note triplet in music
where the quarter-note gets one beat is actually a 3:2 ratio, just as
Giovanni's example is 6:5. But with triplets being so common, tradition
has us simply marking the notes with a 3, with the 3:2 ratio being
understood.
--
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David H. Bailey
dhbaile...@comcast.net
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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