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Author: William Mook
Date: May 9, 2011 14:11
>> This is because 6/8 time is a mutant time signature. It's a compound meter, to be precise. Depending on how you stress the notes, it can be two groups of three, or three groups of two. The pros don't always pick the best signatures either. Pete Seeger transcribed Minuit as 4/4 with a huge number of triplets -- it makes much more sense when written (and sung) as 12/8 (another compound
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