On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote:
> On 15.04.2016 10:23, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Josquin des Prez? I've sung some Missa from him with wildly augmented >>>> triplets crossing a number of bars. Timing them accurately took some >>>> math because at that speed there was no natural flow any more really. >>>> That would be early 16th century. >>>> >>> >>> Wouldn't have been notated like that in those days - they would have >>> used coloratio. >>> >> So? Modern practices of printing Renaissance music are different from >> contemporary practices. They are still different from modern practices >> of printing Classic music. >> >> So to notate it for singers today, you could do it any way that you >>> choose to make it look sensible. >>> >> Which would usually involve triplet brackets >> > > Exactly, brackets, not bows. So this isn’t relevant to the current thread > either. > > Even if it is unlikely that an era of music which favors bow notation would require tuplets across bars or line breaks, it still makes sense to allow them for consistency. Besides, someone will come along who likes the look of bows and requires a broken tuplet for a more recent style of music .... DN..
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