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From: | Paul Scott |
Subject: | Re: Band parts - a newbie's view |
Date: | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:18:53 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) |
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
A lot of American popular/dance music is/was written in cut time even whether or not it is played in cut time. There are many examples where cut time is played in 4/4.On Wednesday 28 July 2004 12:09 pm, Ralph Little wrote:Hi, Unless I'm mistaken, cut-common and common-time are actually different things. Cut-common is the same as 2/2 not 4/4, whereas common-time and 4/4 are the same thing. Cut-common is usually represented with a C with a slash through. Cut-common is often found in band parts and effectively doubles the pace, at least that is my interpretation.It halves the count. Why go farther than that?
Paul Scott
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