Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2001/02

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] 12/8 time
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:02:31 -0500

> does anyone know what the different ways to count 12/8 time are? I'm a
little
> confused. Are they you can either give a beat to each 8th note, play 2
> triplets, or each two notes a beat?

Normally, that would be either 12 beats per measure (the eighth note is the
basic beat unit) or 4 beats per measure (with the dotted quarter note being
the basic beat unit). (Four groups of three, not three goups of four, or
six groups of two.) But, some other arrangements are possible in
contemporary or recent music.

Ed Lacy
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