Talk: Music staffs

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Patrick Allen Brown wrote:

> Not that I really care about this guy's sig, but your analysis of it is
> a little flawed!  Firstly, all the measures DO contain 3 beats, as long
> as that's supposed to be a quarter note triplet in the third measure. 
[.........]

> Secondly, it's not "illegal" to do anything in a melodic line.  ......

Ah, Patrick, it was a joke. Smile :-)

When I studied music we were subjected to all kinds of silly rules, which 
most of us later broke with abandon.  My own composition does a few 
terrible things, too.  Take a closer look at where the two lines go in 
relation to each other in the second and third bars.  My harmony and 
counterpoint teacher would have marked it "wrong".  

[But you are mistaken about the bar lengths, though.  A triplet, by 
definition, is three notes played in the time of two. These ones were 
quavers [=1/8 notes], so there really was a mistake in the number of 
beats in that bar.]

> Or maybe he
> doesn't know anything at all about music and he just thought it was a cute
> signature.  

I suspect that he _does_ know something about music, which is why he 
would appreciate the rediculous analysis of his art.  I also thought his 
artwork was pretty cute: it usually is.

Rosemary.

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