Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator

[Hans Åberg]

> On 28 Oct 2016, at 21:48, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 11:22:00 (-0700), Tobin Chodos wrote:
>> Forgive me if this is a too-easy issue for the list, but: is there a way to
>> define a time compound time signature such as 4/4 + 1/3?  That is, the
>> measure is four quarter notes long plus one triplet eighth note.
> 
> Isn't this just 13/8? Three triplet eighth notes make a quarter note.
> So it's 3+3+3+3+1 all over 8, and the notes will be written out as
> four dotted quarter notes and an eighth note per measure.

Indeed, 12/8 may be complicated notationally if the beats of length 3/8 are 
divided into twos and fours, so 4/4 might be preferred.