[PD] list issue

[Roman Haefeli]

--- Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> schrieb am Fr, 6.3.2009:

> 
> > Unless you happen to be listening to Carter, Cowell,
> Ferneyhough, Johnston, Nancarrow, or anyone who has ever
> happened to use a quintuplet (Chopin, Elvin Jones, maybe Al
> Pacino in "Heat")
> 
> I didn't say that quintuplets don't happen!
>
> I'd be glad to get references to specific pieces that
> contain a lot of quintuplets. Of the five composers you
> named, I only heard Nancarrow, I only heard of Nancarrow,
> and then, I don't recall any quintuplets in it, but I didn't
> see the score and perhaps I couldn't grasp the rhythm of it
> just by ear (?).

'the arabian dance' from the nut cracker ballet by tchaikovsky happens to have quintuplets. you can hear the piece here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8cCLumV10

listen to the lead melody. sometimes it plays some kind of a slow trill (quickly changing between two close notes), which happen to be quintuplets. i admit, that they sound like a duplet followed by a triplet, but i have the scores of the piece and they are written as quintuplets on 32nd's.

roman

 
> It reminds me, I once applied in music composition at
> UQÀM, but when they sent me a letter telling me they wanted
> to test my piano skills with sheet music, I didn't reply,
> because I don't have any piano skills and can't read sheet
> music in realtime. The only instrument I was really ever
> proficient with was ScreamTracker, and boy did I abuse that
> thing. I made pieces in 21/8 time and whatnot. I found that
> notation much easier to deal with than classical notation...
> except for making quintuplets, that is.
> 
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