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Re: tuplets


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: tuplets
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:17:26 +0100
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G.S. Williams <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, 
>
> I've been tied up with classical music for several decades, 
> and we have always referred to 
> pairs of notes as "DUPLETS",
>  not,"TUPLETS:.why do you people in the U.S.A. always 
> change terminology?

That's not a change.  A duplet is a pair of notes against the prevailing
beat, a triplet a threesome, and a tuplet an n-some.

-- 
David Kastrup




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