Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator

[David Wright]

On Wed 02 Nov 2016 at 20:10:39 (+0100), Hans Åberg wrote:
> 
> > On 28 Oct 2016, at 21:48, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 11:22:00 (-0700), Tobin Chodos wrote:
> >> Forgive me if this is a too-easy issue for the list, but: is there a way to
> >> define a time compound time signature such as 4/4 + 1/3?  That is, the
> >> measure is four quarter notes long plus one triplet eighth note.
> > 
> > Isn't this just 13/8? Three triplet eighth notes make a quarter note.
> > So it's 3+3+3+3+1 all over 8, and the notes will be written out as
> > four dotted quarter notes and an eighth note per measure.
> 
> Indeed, 12/8 may be complicated notationally if the beats of length 3/8 are 
> divided into twos and fours, so 4/4 might be preferred.

Now that would be interesting. Are the last three notes of the first
bar realistically performable? OTOH splitting the long notes into
threes would be straightforward to perform (and to write in 13/8).

The only 13/8 I can recall off-hand is an uncomplicated 6/4+1/8.

Cheers,
David.

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