Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!

Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more

Topic: Compound to simple time signatures  (Read 2987 times)

Offline eel05

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 4
Compound to simple time signatures
on: February 10, 2015, 04:35:00 PM
Hello, I've come across this question and I'm a little puzzled about the last bar. The question was to change the time from compound to simple time without changing the rhythm. I'm a bit stumped as to why the minims haven't changed to crochets and why the crotchets didn't change to minims!!

Any words of wisdom on this would be greatly appreciated!!

Offline j_menz

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10148
Re: Compound to simple time signatures
Reply #1 on: February 10, 2015, 11:23:25 PM
To convert a/b time to c/d time you take each note (x) and the new note (y) is :

y = (c/a) * (b/d) * x

So in this case

y = 3/9 * 4/2 x
   = 1/3 * 2 * x
   = 2/3x

So, a dotted mimim changes to a minim.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert