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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2008-12-06 03:31
For a Handel movement in 4/4 time that is predominantly in triplet rhythms, I recollect that a dotted 8th - 16th rhythm should be played in a triplet fashion ( triplet quarter and 8th) rather than as a strict dotted 8th -16th, especially when the accompaniment continues the triplets underneath. Am I right?
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-12-06 05:28
That very question came up in a Baroque performance course I took once, and the conclusion was to play it as a triplet quarter plus eighth, as you describe.
a change to double meter might be okay if there were some logical reason for it. Like if the entire phrase were in triple but only one beat were double (for all players), and that idea repeated for several phrases- then the change from double to triple would be a specific feature of the piece.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-12-06 12:35
And in the meantime, any modern composer who writes a figure like that one instead of notating the phrase in triplets or, if it's repeated a lot, choosing a different time signature in the first place, deserves to get beaten with the weighted end of a swab string.
Lelia
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2008-12-06 15:01
Lelia Loban wrote:
> And in the meantime, any modern composer who writes a figure
> like that one instead of notating the phrase in triplets or, if
> it's repeated a lot, choosing a different time signature in the
> first place, deserves to get beaten with the weighted end of a
> swab string.
Definitely. I'd even prefer it written as straight eights plus a hint on how to play them. (eg "swing eighths" or the aforementioned triplet-quarter-and-eighth.) I don't like thusly embellished sheets...
--
Ben
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