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by Pat Fox » Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:58 pm
This is from a copy of Toccata and Fugue. How do you count this?
Oh this is common time.
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by motet » Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:27 pm
9 beats. You can tell finale to display common time if you want to hide the 9/4.
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by Pat Fox » Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:00 pm
I though common time was 4/4. C is what is in the first measure. I know how to display 9/4. But how am I to know that it is 9/4 and not 4/4.
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by motet » Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:46 pm
A tocatta can contain free, improvisatorish passages, which is what this is, like a cadenza.
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by motet » Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:49 pm
Here's how the Neue Bach Ausgabe chooses to notate it.
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by Peter Thomsen » Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:36 pm
The 6 “quarters” are actually sextuplet sixteenths, filling the last beat of a (slow) 4/4 measure (= the last beat of the half note in the Bass).
My guess is that the 6 “quarters” notation indicates a calm, in free tempo, arpeggio effect (a “pyramid” chord).
“Pyramid” chords are not uncommon in organ music.
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by Pat Fox » Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:14 pm
Every time I think I know something; I learn that I don't know.
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by Pat Fox » Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:29 am
Peter Thomsen I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no training in music. But thank for trying.
motet, I have no idea as to what you did. I have tried to duplicate it but fail. I cannot get the tie lines to work. When I do the "A" quarter note with the sharp the tie line links to the "C" quarter note.
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by Pat Fox » Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:03 am
You know looking ahead on this one. I have come to the conclusion that I bit off more than I should have. So forget about all the hours of help take it would have taken and lets just call it quits. But thanks any way.
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by motet » Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:51 am
The ties in this case are an advanced topic. I was just answering about the rhythm (didn't do the ties).