Chris Bonds wrote:

>Kevin Sutton wrote:
>
>>Pre-Haydn, composers did not use the triplet as a rhythmic figure in
>>simple duple meter.
>
>I'm not sure this is correct.  Bach's Chorale prelude In Dulci Jubilo
>(Orgelbuechlein) is, I think, notated in 3/2, and uses triplet divisions
>of the beat.  Unless you mean duple in the strict sense of 2 or 4 beats to
>the bar.  But I took you to mean in duple subdivisions.

No, I meant two to four beats to the bar...simple duple meter.  Sorry if I
was unclear.  3/2 would be a simple triple meter.

KS