tuplet
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In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)" This is indicated by a number, or sometimes two indicating the fraction involved. The notes involved are also often grouped with a bracket or (in older notation) a slur.
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13 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Triplet
- Tuplet notation
- Notation
- Rhythm
- Simple meter
- Compound meter
- Nested tuplets
- Counting
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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{{Image frame|content= \new RhythmicStaff { \clef percussion \time 4/4 \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 80 c4 \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c4 \tuplet 5/4 { c16 c c c c } c4 } |width=300|caption=Rhythm with tuplets: a triplet on the second beat and a quintuplet on the fourth}}
In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)" This is indicated by a number, or sometimes two indicating the fraction involved. The notes involved are also often grouped with a bracket or (in older notation) a slur.