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I’m at a loss here. You bring up further early stuff to prove what? He was simply making the point that triplet patterns aren’t some new invention - they aren’t a product of classical music, or rock or the blues or jazz; they are ancient.
You seem determined to chastise me by agreeing with his point of view.
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Sorry, wasn’t meant to be a chastisement (except of Goodall 
), and yes, we are agreeing. The only point I really was making was that ‘folk’ music as we know it, or as we have any knowledge of, isn’t necessarily all that old.
[QUOTE=Sleel]
Notes of one-half the frequency and double the frequency of a reference note are perceived as being “the same”. That quite often leads to fours or multiples of it being used in musical notation and thinking.
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I don’t follow how one leads to the other?