At 10:50 PM +1100 2/13/07, Trent Johnston wrote:
Mainly British terms, although since a lot of text books / instrument instructions come from "American" metric values are also used.
Pardon, but isn't this a misuse of the word "metric"? The system taught in the U.S. is fractional, not metric. I may be wrong, but I don't believe I've ever seen a decinote, or a centinote, or a millinote! (My, but that would be a fast one!!) Our system is based on the division of the whole note (historically the semibreve) by 2 (or in its original form in the 13th century the breve's division by 3), not by 10.
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