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From: "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
Subject: Re: Cantique de noel: musicologists' answers to rhythm question
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JRL wrote:

>>A composer would have to be insane to write dotted
quarter-sixteenth when he could easily have written this in triplets.

I'm no musicologist, but I think this was done quite often in certain past
times. Baroque period perhaps?

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