Timeline for What time signatures are best for choir music?
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| Oct 12, 2019 at 5:27 | comment | added | Rosie F | Oh yes, I know that archaic practice, discussed here & here, and yes, it does make G & S patter songs' vocal lines hard to parse. And recitativo secco, where over one basso continuo chord the singer sings a lot of quick syllables. | |
| Oct 11, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | Camille Goudeseune | Yes. A brief patter-song torrent of sixteenths shouldn't scare anyone. If anything, the extra beaming makes the larger rhythmic structure clearer (as long as you don't use the archaic flags-on-each-note convention for singers, instead of beams). | |
| Oct 11, 2019 at 19:10 | comment | added | Rosie F | So that includes quarters divided into 8ths and 16ths, supposing we have a relaxed quarter pulse around 60 or 72 or so, so that you could have 2 or 3 syllables to one beat? | |
| Oct 11, 2019 at 18:12 | history | answered | Camille Goudeseune | CC BY-SA 4.0 |