Comments on: Musical notation for a loop

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:51:00 +0000

Like Canon in D? :P

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:32:00 +0000

I see either a 8th bar with 2 beats followed by a 9th with just one (in a 3/4 piece) or a needless line seperating them. of course both a ten bar repeating pattern and an 11 bar pattern are highly abnormal, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

By: Alissa Mower Clough

Alissa Mower Clough — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:19:00 +0000

I’d put the clef in the center, of course!

By: Müller Jan

Müller Jan — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:47:00 +0000

http://www.rem.ufpr.br/_REM/REMv13/03/voz_oralidade_concretude_clip_image002.jpg
(pierre schaeffer ca. 1948)

By: Paco

Paco — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:30:00 +0000

BTW LilyPond (.org) can do this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00150.html

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:17:00 +0000

When you program it into your drum machine, the clef is silent.

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:50:00 +0000

…some people started singing it not knowing what it was
and now they’ve kept on singing it, because…

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:49:00 +0000

This is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on, my friends…

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:49:00 +0000

…this is the song that never ends

it just goes on and on, my friends…

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:54:00 +0000

One of the things Bach was famous for during his lifetime was his “puzzle canons”, tiny loops of music that could be interpreted in various ways to render complex, yet harmonious results. The “Hudemann Canon” is a particularly brief example:

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/realhud1.html

By: Pope Ratzo

Pope Ratzo — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:13:00 +0000

There is a much more basic and widely used notation for a loop. It’s called a “repeat sign”.

If you look at the sheet music for any popular song since the late 1800′s, you’ll see lots of them, and any musician knows how to work them.

By: Steve Faiella

Steve Faiella — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:24:00 +0000

not sure I agree with the “no beginning or end”. Wouldn’t the G clef symbol and time signature be the beginning and the last note the end? Yes, it’s repeated, but there are distinct beginning and ending parts of the pattern. Perhaps I’m just too old and pedantic to enjoy these types of things.. LOL

By: OldBrownSquirrel

OldBrownSquirrel — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:08:00 +0000

I’m very lucky that the song my 5yo son has been listening to on repeat (Cloisonné by They Might Be Giants) is from an album (Join Us) I bought for myself and spent some time listening to on repeat.

By: Tribune

Tribune — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:37:00 +0000

So this is how I describe the circle of hell my children occasionally condemn me to with looped music.