Talk:Hundred twenty-eighth note

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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)