Origin of Triplets

JB20041 | 23:15 Mon 06th Nov 2006 | Music

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I read somewhere, years ago, that the use of the notation figure for a triplet (tuplet) is relatively new (within the last 150 years.) Is that true?

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I don't know exactly when they were first used, but triplets were definitely used in the Baroque period - I've just been teaching JS Bach's flute sonata in B minor and the first movement has loads.

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