To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Cantique de noel: musicologists' answers to rhythm question(long-ish)
Date sent: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:25:37 -0500
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Just to be clear, I'd like to reiterate that Mr. Laudon corrected Ms.
Ramalingam's recollection and said she was referring to a practice in place
before Adolphe Adams' time.

Best wishes,

Laura


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryant Christenson"
(snip)This is a very common practice today and many arrangements will add
that a dotted eighth sixteenth pattern is to be performed as a
quarter-eighth triplet. It is almost always the unspoken case in pop
music. It is simply done because it takes less time to write than a
triplet sign, etc.

However, I do agree that Adam lived in a time when this practice
would not have been the norm.