Talk:Hundred twenty-eighth note

Surely a note this short would be highly unusual. Do we have any examples of music using it that we could list? Are there any shorter notes (besides trills, etc.)? Is it only used in slow tempo music? Rmhermen 13:30, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, they're unusual, but not unknown. I guess they would be more common at slow tempi, but everything's relative. Shorter notes are occasionally used, but are even rarer. I don't have any examples to hand of them being used I can add to the article (maybe somebody else?) - if I happen across anything, I'll put it in. --Camembert

This page [1] provides the following:

"The shortest notated duration I know of appears in this page of Anthony Phillip Heinrich's Toccata Grande Cromatica from The Sylviad, Set 2, m. 16 (c. 1825). At the very end of the page--the end of the last measure on the lower staff of the bottom system--there are some 1024th and even two 2048th(!) notes. However, the context shows clearly that these notes have one beam more than intended, so they should really be 512th and 1024th notes, respectively. The passage--in 2/4, marked "Grave"--also contains many 256th notes. (How reasonable these durations are can be inferred from the fact that even at a tempo as slow as M.M. eighth = 40 (quarter = 20), a 1024th note would last about 1/85 sec.)"

82.24.189.88 19:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

There is an Eb major scale and a chromatic scale in the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique (Op. 13) that occur in 128 time. See [2]. UninvitedCompany 18:14, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

256th note

Gardner Read remarks: "The only example of this note-value [256th] known to the author is found in the 4 Movements for Piano and Orchestra by the Polish avant-gardist Boguslav Schäffer." Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice 2nd Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, Inc. (1969): 117. Jindřichův Smith (talk) 22:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Holy crap! I don't think there's much of a reason for notes that short... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.186.81.114 (talk) 04:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

---WELL I BELIEVE THAT THE PIANO IS NOT THE ONLY INSTRUMENT TO BE USED TO PERFORM THESE 256TH NOTES. I AM A DRUMMER AND I CAN PLAY 256TH NOTES AT A REASONABLY FAST TEMPO. WHAT DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Erm... well done? Wereon (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Contradiction?

The closing paragraphs say this;

"The logical succession to a hundred twenty-eighth note would be a "two hundred fifty-sixth note," or a "demisemihemidemisemiquaver" in British/Classic terminology. However, these are exceptionally rare, if not non-existent, as no evidence exists to prove or disprove their existence. "

And then say this;

"Two hundred fifty-sixth notes and rests also exist, but they are rare and only exist in computer generated music"

So the are exceptionally rare...and they also exist. Logic fail, or am I reading this incorrectly? doktorb _words^deeds 14:54, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

It's just hooey. Evidence to disprove their existence? --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 15:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)