note value

Sorey also aspires to an ideal in which note values — how long a player expresses each particular sound — is crucially important.

But five is more challenging, and I also thought, ������ if the tempo never changed, but the note values changed, and that’s how you set off movements?

Before leaving isorhythm, there is a footnote to be added about the way it is organised as strings of note values.

It is impossible to walk down the street and not assign note values to pitched sounds — be it a traffic officer’s whistle or an elevator’s arrival tone.

The voices sing predominantly in long note values, while the instruments often percolate on more active repeated patterns.