Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition

 More on the Divisions of the Whole Note, in a Cowellian Sense " Decimal Rhythms " While in Champaign back in 2007, I was given a notebook. Since I had nothing but time on my hands, I began ruminating about the divisions of the whole note. Borrowing (as the best of us do) from Cowell , I wrote out a schema for a 'newer' approach to non-duple-based rhythms . I wrote this:           Figure 1. A figuration of Decimal Rhythms Figure 1 is a common-time bar of decimal rhythms: one third-note , at 33.3% of a whole note; one twelfth-note , at 1/3 of a third note of 11.1%; an eleventh-note , at 1/11th of a whole note, at 9%; a seventh-note , at 14.3%; and three tenth notes , obviously at 10% x 3 = 30% of a whole note. These add up to approximately. 97.7% of a whole note, or the 4/4 measure, is indicated. An outline of the Figure 1 decimal rhythmic measure is shown below in Figure 2.     Figure 2. An outline of the decimal measure is hidden   ...