I have a metronome and it has no Italian words on it at all. It is a traditional "upside-down pendulum" job in a nice triangular wooden box. I think the Italian words are just for the classical music sub-genre. They're fine but they're just one way to do it. I'm sure Russian words would work just as well (medleno etc - excuse the wrong font!). Laurie
----- Original Message ----- From: James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] something really simple > On Thu 22 Nov 2001 at 04:52PM +0000, Jack Campin wrote: > > > > No it isn't. A typical dance tune book will use "reel time" or "waltz > > tempo" the same way all through. In the Kurdish song book I quoted, > > the same Italian tempo terms are used over and over again and are NEVER > > defined at the beginning of a tune. There wouldn't be any point in > > tempo terms unless they had an understood meaning in a context wider > > than an individual tune. Today, everybody who has a metronome uses the > > commonest 8 or so Italian terms in the same way to about 1% precision > > because they're engraved on the scale, and I would guess the world > > contains a few million more metronome users than ABC users. > > As someone who doesn't own a metronome, this is new information to me. > If everyone who has a metronome posts these numbers, then maybe we > will find that they all agree and we will have the basis for a useful > standard. Likewise, perhaps you could post a list of military march > tempos. Where pre-existing standards exist, then providing support > for them in abc does seem like a good idea. > > James Allwright > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
