Re: [Finale] Re: Bach's triplet notation - OT

2007-04-15 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Neal Gittleman wrote: Living in a world that seems to unduly prize consistency, we're obliged to be more precise in our notation. (And even if we don't feel so-obliged, Finale will oblige us!) That last parenthetical comment is one of the most insightful thi

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach's triplet notation - OT

2007-04-15 Thread Neal Gittleman
Charles: Wow, that is a doozy. I'd read it the same way you do... But it's disconcerting that the same notation which seems to be a tuplet in m5 is an ordinary dotted-quarter-plus-8th in m4 and m6! Me: Though probably not disconcerting to folks of the time, when there was so much about mu

[Finale] Re: Bach's triplet notation - OT

2007-04-15 Thread Charles Small
On 15-Apr-07, at 3:31 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: (Graupner). You can see a screenshot of the manuscript here: http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/brian/graupner/sarabande.jpg The troublesome issue for me is measure 5, I assume the first three notes are tuplet, then the next three, then the next t