Chris Bonds:
>Pre-Haydn, composers did not use the triplet as a rhythmic figure in
>simple duple meter.
Check "Sanctus" (Bach's Mass in b minor). It's written in common time
signature, but there is a continuous figuration of eight triplets (as in
12/8). The strings draws a figuration of dotted eight + sixteenth, which
must be read as a quarter + eight triplet.
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