What do you call a 13-tuplet?

[Matt_B]

If you have 13 notes in the space of 2 beats, what do you call it? I ask because I was trying to notate a little etude in Guitar Pro and the main phrase is 13 notes in the space of 2. It's a tuplet like a quintuplet or sextuplet but it's based on 13. I know it can be notated with "13:2" and a bracket over the notes but I can't do that in Guitar Pro so I just selected all the notes and applied a 13-tuplet to them.

I think this would be a called a triskaidekatuplet but I can't verify that on the net.

[Endrik]

from pure linguistic perspective I'd guess
tredicetuplet
tredicituplet
treizetuplet
trecetuplet
dekatrituplet
or something like that

[nor]

NERDS!!!!
lol....

[Matt_B]

The prefix "triskaideka" literally translates to "3 and 10" but I think "tridecipulet" is correct. I found one instance of this word used on some chemistry page so I'm going with that.

[Endrik]

are you sure it's tridecipulet?

In Latin/Romanic languages where all the musical terminology has came from (+ the Greeks), the three part in thirteen has always "tre" as the first 3 letters.
Tredecim (latin) Tredici (italian) Treize (french) Trece (spanish) Treze (portuguese)
And shouldn't the suffix be "tuplet" like in most other group of notes. "pulet" sounds weird. Suffix "uplum" in latin shows that it's a grouping of numbers. In music "uplum" goes to "tuplet". The "pl" should stay.

[Matt_B]

are you sure it's tridecipulet?

I'm not sure about any of this because I can't absolutely confirm anything.

[Trem]

If you have 13 notes in the space of 2 beats, what do you call it?

too many notes?

[Matt_B]

too many notes?

Ha. Actually it's not.

I've been thinking about the notation for this and here's what I came up with.



Since the emphasis in the 1st note and the 8th note so it makes sense to notate them as a septuplet and a sextuplet. It's seven 8th notes in the space of 4 and six 8th notes in the space of 4. The difference in the rhythm of each phrase gives it a cool feel.

[Spivonious]

And all this in E Major of all keys! (That's my trombone brain speaking. Sharps are evil!! )