John Howell wrote:
The basic problem here seems to be a client who thinks it's logical to have a measure zero. It's no more logical than to have a page zero in a book, or a year zero in our calendar. The human mind doesn't work that way. Looks like anything you do to satify her will have to be a kludge.
John
There are some non-trivial reasons for counting sequences beginning with zero rather than one. While introducing such a counting sequences now would be totally impractical in most traditional musical contexts, had such sequences been adopted earlier, they might actually have solved some common rehearsal confusions. (Consider the case of numbers issued while waiting in line for something -- if you get number zero, that means that no one is standing in front of you, which is something subtly different from getting number one in a sequence beginning with one, which indicates that you are the first in the line). In any case, I can well image a work of new music in which such a numbering sequence may be very useful to the interpreter. See, for example, Chapter 10 of _The Book of Numbers_ by Conway and Guy (New York 1996 Copernicus (Springer-Verlag)).
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