At least Viennese, right? Plus, they're only perfect in tempus, but have minor prolation (duple subdivision; besides, they aren't Medieval mensural music anyways).
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Shane Brandes <sh...@grayskies.net> wrote: > > Waltzes are only sort of in 3/4 time. If you play them properly. > > Shane > >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Conor Cook <conor.p.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Remember (if it was ever pointed out), perfection in this case means simply >> completeness. God is complete (perfect) in Himself, people are incomplete >> (imperfect). According to Church theology, at least. Maybe we are just >> especially aware of our incompleteness these days. Or we simply prefer >> music that describes ourselves as a society. >> >> What’s that say about waltzes? >> >> Hmm… >> >> As for the actual content of Dan's original email, I got nothing. >> >> ~Conor >> >> From: Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarensk...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc >> Date: September 26, 2014 at 8:27:53 AM CDT >> To: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> >> Cc: Dan Eble <nine.fierce.ball...@gmail.com>, lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Reply-To: Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> >> Now the interpretation and history of the various time signatures derived in >> some way from mensural notation is a complex issue, as is the disambiguation >> of c and cut c. >> >> >> One of the things I remember from my music Theory and History classes is >> that C had not much to do with the letter "C" but was in fact half of a >> circle. The Circle O was used when there were 3 beats in a measure, the >> Tempus Perfectum, 3 being the Holy number: God, the Son, and the Holy >> Spirit. In contrast the "human" 4/4 time was "Imperfectum" - just the half >> of a circle, making it look like the letter "C". >> >> Listening to the Radio and Spotify, where 99% of the music is in 4/4 time, I >> am afraid God is not in a winning mood these days ;-) >> >> -- >> >> MT >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user