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Thread #164719   Message #3952870
Posted By: Jack Campin
26-Sep-18 - 01:42 AM
Thread Name: Playing medieval music medievally
Subject: RE: Playing medieval music medievally
Ravenscroft is well post-mediæval, you might as well say Beyoncé is Regency.

The idea of indicating triplets by beaming goes well past Vickers - Rachmaninov did it sometimes. The problem with the notation of triple-time hornpipes is that a lot of the people writing them in manuscripts didn't really know what they were doing. Many 18th century notebooks have 4 bars of 3/2 written as 6 bars of 4/4.