I think it's a different meaning of the work "metric" here. Since we label our note values in powers of 2 we could even call our system "logarithmic."
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: musical note values in OZ? > 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. > > John > > > -- > John & Susie Howell > Virginia Tech Department of Music > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
