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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Mar 1995.
Re: Prophecy 3/6

Re: Prophecy 3/6

Eric Scheirer (ed...@fripp.media.mit.edu) wrote:

: Mr. Christ-it's-a-Frog wrote:
:   > I'll believe [a 'sixth note'] when I see it. Remember, no dots.
: Well, let's see.

(wordsmithery elided)

:   sixth note: a musical note with the time value of one sixth of a whole note
: Tell you what.  I'll give you six of the little buggers.

(ASCII art in 4/4 elided - wassamatta, aren't you saving this thread to disk?)

Hah. You might just as well have given

                         ****
                         ********
                         **********
                         *********
                         *******
                         *****
                         ***
                         *

which is equally worthless as a solution to the problem of notation in
3/6 time.

Or maybe not. At least you could *try* to use this in a 3/6 score.
So what if it would look like an old hymnal?

jkc

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