Timeline for BPM, beat durations vs frequency
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| Jul 8, 2021 at 20:48 | vote | accept | MusicRookie | ||
| Jul 8, 2021 at 12:00 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | @Tim - Readability- and style-wise, the answer may well be no. Scherzos, waltzes, and furiants tend to be in 3/4 time - even the fast ones. (A particularly nasty example is the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.) For closely related incidents, I often see circus screamers in 2/2 time (instead of 2/4 time like some slower marches). | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 8:51 | comment | added | Tim | Would a fast 3/4 be better written as 3/8? I understand that bpm would dictate speed, but 3/8 would be more appropriate nevertheless. | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 7:41 | comment | added | Aaron | @Tim A dotted half note (dotted minim to you) is a full measure of 3/4 time. It's not uncommon for a fast 3/4 to be given "in 1": that is, as a dotted half-note. | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 6:54 | comment | added | Tim | Not met (yet) 3/4 time sig. using dotted anything at the 'beat'. Why would that be needed? It's straying into 6/8 territory, which is little to do with 3/4 unless it's 'America'. | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 22:54 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2021 at 22:28 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |