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Re: chord durations


From: James E. Bailey
Subject: Re: chord durations
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:36:02 +0200


On 31.08.2009, at 05:51, Federico Bruni wrote:

Christian Henning wrote:
Hi there, adding a dot to a chord duration prolongs it by 50%. "g4.",
for instance, is 1.5 beats or three 8th notes. "g4.." is 1.75 beats, I
believe. Which would translate into seven 16th notes. But what is
"g4..."? Here, with 3 dots.

g4... = 15/32
so 1,875 beats

Also, how can I describe a duration that lasts for 2.25 beats?

I've never thought in beats..
Anyway, it should be something like this maybe (lilypond code):

g2 ~ g16

assuming that
g4= 1 beat
g8= 0.5
g16= 0.25
g32= 0.125

and so on...

NO.

Wow, Kieren, I understand now.
A dot increases rhythmic value of each preceeding note by 50%. With double-and triple dots, the later dots increase the value of the previous dots.

so:

c4. = c4~ c8
c4.. = c4~ c8~ c16
c4... = c4~ c8~ c16~ c32

James E. Bailey




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