--- Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca schrieb am Fr, 6.3.2009:

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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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