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Quadruplets?

Does anyone know of a way to enter quadruplets in NWC? I have done the custom bar but rhythmically it doesn't work. I am agonizing over this and need to know as soon as possible. Any help is appreciated. Please email me at avrilyn@comcast.net

Re: Quadruplets?

Reply #1 –
The rest of the forum is painfully quiet... or maybe someone has mailed you privately. I must confess I do not understand the question. Triplets, three to the time of two, I can understand. Quadruplets, four to the time of two: enter notes with half the value. Or is it not as simple as that?

Re: Quadruplets?

Reply #2 –
Quadruplets are four notes in the time of three.  Although I think, in 6/8 time, they can be four in the time of six.

Just as Duplets are two in the time of three.

Above that thing seem to get a bit more fuzzy, so a septuplet can be seven in the time of six, or seven in the time of eight.  You just have to count up how many beats are used up by the normal note, and let the n-tuplet eat the rest.

Re: Quadruplets?

Reply #3 –
So, a duplet quaver is 2:3. Meaning 2 quavers in the time of 3. Which means 2 in the time of 6 semiquavers, meaning that 1 'duplet' quaver = 3 semiquavers = 1 dotted quaver. So, what's the point in having 'duplets' when dotted notes are of the same length?
 

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Reply #4 –
Just as notes that are enharmonically the same, are not exactly the same, note that have the same timing are not necessarily the same, in a performance. That is why 2/2 is 4/4, mathematically, but not musically. Conducting duplets (hemiolas) is not the same as conducting dotted notes.

I am sure others can state it more clearly, or shorter... Any offers?