How to Read Music in 30 Days: Music Theory for Beginners - with Exercises & Online Audio (Practical Music Theory Book 1) by Matthew Ellul

Author:Matthew Ellul [Ellul, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: School of Composition
Published: 2020-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Rewriting Simple & Compound

Apart from doubling and halving, it’s also possible to rewrite a rhythm from a simple meter to a compound meter (and vice versa) without changing the way it sounds.

As we will see, tuplets will come in handy in such an exercise because we will need to control the subdivisions of beats in order to maintain exactly the same rhythm between simple and compound.

Let’s try an example. This rhythm is in three-four meter:

A rhythm in three-four meter

How do we rewrite this into a compound meter? In order to maintain its melodic and rhythmic character, the new meter must also be a triple one. In our previous lessons we saw that a measure in three-four time could quite easily become a measure in nine-eight time if we just add a dot to each beat:

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