Re: [talk] easy tuplets

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 24/09/12 18:27, David Kastrup wrote:
> I don't like it since it does not match musical concepts.  You would not
> talk about "12th notes" to other musicians.

That's not entirely true.  Contemporary composers (I think Ferneyhough started 
it, others have continued it) have used time signatures like x/10, x/6, etc. 
(which Lilypond already supports) where the base unit is a quintuplet-eighth, a 
triplet-quarter, etc.

(There are earlier examples of equivalent time signatures, e.g. in Boulez, but 
they don't use the simple ratio -- Boulez writes things like (4 + 2/3)/4 where 
Ferneyhough would have written 7/6.)

Given such a musical context, it may make more sense to write,

    \time 4/10
    c'10 \times 2/3 { c'10 c' c' } c'20 c'

than,

    \time 4/10
    \times 4/5 { c'8 \times 2/3 { c'8 c' c' } c'16 c' }