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Question

Can anyone give me a list of instrumental songs that contains several notes shorter than a sixteenth note? Can you tell me what note it is and how to count it if you can.

Just give me a small list of songs. You only have to name a few. I'm a musician and have never came across a piece with notes of that short value. Thanks.

Answer 1

Run on over to this site

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

and research your own question. You already know about the "Pathetique", so you have a place to start.

Happy hunting. This stuff sure is better than trance and house, eh?

Answer 2

There are hundreds of pieces using shorter notes than a sixteenth. I'm not even sure where to begin listing them.

The next shortest note is called a "thirty-secondth" note. It looks much like a sixteenth, except that it has three "flags" instead of two. There are two thirty-secondth notes to a sixteenth, four thirty-secondth notes to an eighth, and so on. After that, is the "sixty-fourth" note with four flags. It is played twice as fast as the thirty-secondth. The notes keep getting shorter and shorter from there. The fastest I've ever seen in my experience is a 128th note, which had five flags.

It's very simple to count them. By adding a flag, the note becomes half the length it was before.



EDIT: Just to give a few examples, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier has several preludes and fugues with shorter notes. In Prelude No. 2 in C Minor (which is mostly 16th notes), there are thirty-secondth and sixty-fourth notes near the end. There are thirty-secondth notes throughout Prelude No. 16 in G Minor as well. Beethoven's Six Easy Variations in G Major (WoO 77) also feature thirty-secondth notes. The right hand part of the sixth variation is written almost entirely in them. I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Forgive me that I frowned on reading your question: the number of works using note values smaller than a 16th would amount to hundreds upon hundreds of thousands if you take the repertoire for all/any instrumental combinations into account. To make your question more practicable for everyone, could you tell us what it actually is you're trying to find out? No one is going to write you your list as the question stands right now. Not if they're in their right mind, at least... :-))

Edit:
Having seen your supplementary and also your answer on another thread:

"Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 commonly known as Pathétique. It contains Hundred Twenty-Eighth notes."
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am3dD98HdpWhlfItIhm4hlqp.Bd.;_ylv=3?qid=20070921093708AA7YoqW

you've cheerfully answered your own question there, and therefore need not waste anyone else's time and patience, including mine, here.

Good luck to you.