Finale Forum

This is from a copy of Toccata and Fugue. How do you count this?Oh this is common time.

9 beats. You can tell finale to display common time if you want to hide the 9/4.

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.

A tocatta can contain free, improvisatorish passages, which is what this is, like a cadenza.

Here's how the Neue Bach Ausgabe chooses to notate it.

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.

Every time I think I know something; I learn that I don't know.

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.

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.

The ties in this case are an advanced topic. I was just answering about the rhythm (didn't do the ties).