metachromatic <metachroma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To see how silly your comment on this issue is, let's calculate the >> difference in time twixt a tuplet like 7919/4451 against a tuplet >> 7909/4447 over the course of two minutes and 13 seconds of 4/4 time at >> a tempo of metronome marking 90: >> >> The difference is (0.00064839149)*60/90 seconds per quarter note = >> 0.00043226099 seconds per quarter note. But after only 200 quarter >> notes (that is, 50 measures of 4/4, taking only two minutes and 13 >> seconds), that difference in timing has grown to ~ 1/11 second. And I >> guarantee you that you can easily hear whether one melodic line is >> offset from another by 1/11 second, since that equates to a difference >> of slightly less than an eighth note at tempo 90. >> >> Now, come on, Han-Wen...are you _really_ telling me the average >> listener can't hear the duration of an eighth note a tempo mm = 90? >> Seriously?
I have to correct a post from the other day: In my 30+ years on electronic networks, *this* is the hardest I’ve ever seen anyone work to die on a hill not worth dying on. And, bonus, it’s done with an extra helping of condescension. Best of luck! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
