Editing Dotted note (section)

==Beyond two dots==
{{Redirect|Triple dot|the punctuation mark that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word or phrase from the original text|Ellipsis|other uses|Three dots (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Triple-dotted note no dots.mid|90px|left]] (0 dots)<br /><br />
[[File:Triple-dotted note one dots.mid|90px|left]] (1 dot)<br /><br />
[[File:Triple-dotted note two dots.mid|90px|left]] (2 dots)<br /><br />
[[File:Triple-dotted note three dots.mid|90px|left]] (3 dots)
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Use of more than two dots is very uncommon;<ref>[[Ludwig Bussler|Bussler, Ludwig]] (1890). ''Elements of Notation and Harmony'', p. 14. 2010 edition: {{ISBN|1-152-45236-3}}.</ref> only triple and quadruple dotting have been used.<ref name="CWMN">{{cite web |title=Extremes of Conventional Music Notation |url=https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremes.htm |work=indiana.edu}}</ref> Triple-dotted notes, while very uncommon, can be found in the music of [[Richard Wagner]] and [[Anton Bruckner]], especially in brass parts.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} Their duration is {{frac|1|7|8}} times the basic note value.

Triple-dotted notes also appear in [[Frédéric Chopin]]'s [[Preludes (Chopin)|Prelude in G major for piano, Op.&nbsp;28, No.&nbsp;3]]. The piece, in [[time signature|common time]] ({{music|time|4|4}}), contains running [[Sixteenth note|semiquavers]] (sixteenth notes) in the left hand. Several times during the piece Chopin the right hand plays a triple-dotted [[half note|minim]] (half note), lasting 15 semiquavers, simultaneously with the first left-hand semiquaver, then one semiquaver simultaneously with the 16th left-hand semiquaver.

Quadruple-dotted notes, with a duration of {{frac|1|15|16}} times its basic note value, are extremely rare.<ref name="CWMN" /> A quintuple dotted note would be {{frac|1|31|32}} times the original note's value.{{efn|[[Tempo]]s vary from ≤24 beats per minute to ≥200 bpm; at a slow [[larghetto]] tempo of quarter note {{=}} 60 (one quarter note per second; 60 bpm), the length of a quintuple dotted note is 0.03125 seconds longer than a quadruple dotted note and presumably below the [[just-noticeable difference]] for musical duration and too fast to allow proper [[counting (music)|counting]] and accuracy.}} This becomes impractical notation due to the increasingly small gradation of the length of such a note (notes shorter than sixty-fourth notes are rare and at the limits of what is practical<ref>Morehen, John. 2001. "Hemidemisemiquaver". ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan.</ref>) and the fact that multiple dots obscure any intermediate divisions of the beat, making the rhythm more difficult to read.
:{| class="wikitable"
|+Base note duration = 1
|-
|
! Undotted
! 1 dot
! 2 dots
! 3 dots
! 4 dots
|-
! Lengthens
| N/A (<math>0</math>)
| {{frac|1|2}} <math> = 0.5</math>
| {{frac|1|4}} <math> = 0.25</math>
| {{frac|1|8}} <math> = 0.125</math>
| {{frac|1|16}} <math> = 0.0625</math>
|-
! Decimal result
| <math>1</math>
| <math>1.5</math>
| <math>1.75</math>
| <math>1.875</math>
| <math>1.9375</math>
|-
! Fractional result
| <math>1</math>
| <math>1</math>{{frac|1|2}}
| <math>1</math>{{frac|3|4}}
| <math>1</math>{{frac|7|8}}
| <math>1</math>{{frac|15|16}}
|}