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Re: What is the purpose of 3/2 time

Author: alto gether
Date: 2013-07-02 21:19

My answer will be a bit different from the others, because I started as a folkie and there are lots of old hornpipes in six-beat measures. Musical pieces are subdivided at several levels, so I read 6/4 as "like 2/4, but with bars grouped in sets of 3". 3/2 would be like a cut-time variation of that. You could write either of them (or anything in 6/8 or 9/8, for that matter) in 3/4, but you'd be obscuring part of the groove. If you google Eagle's Whistle, the first two or three videos are pretty explicit about the rhythm I'm trying to describe.

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