Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

[Conor Cook]

At least Viennese, right?  Plus, they're only perfect in tempus, but have minor 
prolation (duple subdivision; besides, they aren't Medieval mensural music 
anyways).


> On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Shane Brandes <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Waltzes are only sort of in 3/4  time.  If you play them properly.
> 
> Shane
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Conor Cook <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Remember (if it was ever pointed out), perfection in this case means simply
>> completeness.  God is complete (perfect) in Himself, people are incomplete
>> (imperfect).  According to Church theology, at least.  Maybe we are just
>> especially aware of our incompleteness these days.  Or we simply prefer
>> music that describes ourselves as a society.
>> 
>> What’s that say about waltzes?
>> 
>> Hmm…
>> 
>> As for the actual content of Dan's original email, I got nothing.
>> 
>> ~Conor
>> 
>> From: Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc
>> Date: September 26, 2014 at 8:27:53 AM CDT
>> To: Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Dan Eble <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> Reply-To: Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> 
>> Now the interpretation and history of the various time signatures derived in
>> some way from mensural notation is a complex issue, as is the disambiguation
>> of c and cut c.
>> 
>> 
>> One of the things I remember from my music Theory and History classes is
>> that C had not much to do with the letter "C" but was in fact half of a
>> circle. The Circle O was used when there were 3 beats in a measure, the
>> Tempus Perfectum, 3 being the Holy number: God, the Son, and the Holy
>> Spirit. In contrast the "human" 4/4 time was "Imperfectum" - just the half
>> of a circle, making it look like the letter "C".
>> 
>> Listening to the Radio and Spotify, where 99% of the music is in 4/4 time, I
>> am afraid God is not in a winning mood these days ;-)
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> MT
>> 
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