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Re: help notes and rests

Author: D
Date: 2006-08-12 22:03

EuGeneSee, sounds like you've pretty much got it!

The only exception again is really early music which, when written with bars by the editor can end up with hemiolas all over the place which just happen, rather than a couple delicately placed for effect and texture. Or some just kind of drifts along and you would be hard pressed to put bars in were they not already there. It is difficult to play without inserting that pulse that a bar line hints at, but in some cases (typically can't think of any right now) there is no pulse and the bar lines hinder the performer when trying to play it as the original composer intended. Better to get a manuscript book and write it out with no bar lines, then see how it sounds. Quite suprising the difference. I don't pretend to be any kind of expert as I have had a few years of lessons on flute (years ago), no training in music as a subject and everything else I just muddle through on my own. But I play a lot of old music on recorder with a bunch of friends (late on Friday nights mainly) and this is the sort of thing that seems to appear on the music stands at some point after midnight!

Sorry about being confusing with the note names. I have never learned them by the "whole note eighth note" system and really struggle with it.

i can't decide which sounds more frightening. hemidemisemiquaver, or 64th note!

I also realised I should have explained that thing about the monkey in my other post. We were taught "the little monkey isn't big enough to swing on the bar so he sits on it" as a way to remember the difference between a longer and shorter rest. Then the really long rest (rectangle with lines at each side) becomes an exploded monkey etc.

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