Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator

[mclaren]

David remarked: 
>"One triplet eighth note" defines a duration of time (which the OP 
> appeared to get wrong in any case). One note cannot form a triplet. 

Sure it can. They're called broken tuplets, and lots of composers use 'em.
Michael Gordon uses broken tuplets all the time. So does Mikel Rouse, Kyle
Gann, and many others.

Single notes can be tuplets of any kind, 4:3, 11:9, 23:17, or whatever. This
is common practice nowadays in what Kyle Gann calls totalist music.

A typical totalist rhythm pattern is something like

q    q   q 3:2 q q 3:2 q 3:2     against
5:4  q  q 5:4 5:4 q q 5:4 5:4 

Both measures add up to eight quarter notes, but the pulse is irregular due
to the broken tuplets. 



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