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Question on Dowland's time signatures
In the piece 'Can She Excuse'
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv8Fm2lXbNE) the time signature is given as 3/4. However many bars, eg bar 5, make little or no sense unless read as 6/8. My edition is 'Dowland's Dozen' (Ricordi) by Chris Kilvington. The recording sounds as though the sections mentioned are played in 6/8 (without the accents?). Does anyone have any info on this? Was it common for composers in Dowland's time to switch between 3/4 and 6/8 without indicating it? Your help is much appreciated! |
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That's REAL common in Dowland, a contrasting pulse between the A and B sections.
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Yes, so common there's even a name for it: hemiola.
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