> On 2 Nov 2016, at 21:08, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed 02 Nov 2016 at 20:10:39 (+0100), Hans Åberg wrote: >> >>> On 28 Oct 2016, at 21:48, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> 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).
It is, if the tempo is not too high, and one devices a method for counting. > The only 13/8 I can recall off-hand is an uncomplicated 6/4+1/8. At moderato, 1/4 = 120, 13/16 is performable counting on 2s and 3s. One example is Krivo Sadovsko horo (Bulgaria), 13 = 4+5+4, 4=2+2, 5 = 2+3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCuUWnwM28 Another is Ispayche horo, 13 = 3+2+3+2+3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU2za0rbzs At higher tempo, one may need to count on 3s, 4s, and 5s, especially when clapping hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aecsGYwtVJM This is a Leventikos, in video video, it is in 16 = 4+2+3+4+3, but the clap hands 4+5+4+3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leventikos This Leventikos is also performed in 12 = 3+2+2+3+2, with quadruplets on the 3s - se my other post in this thread. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
