"Metric" is correct musically as it has to do with metre, and
mathematically, as it has to do with distance in a metric space. The
term metric does necessarily require decimal divisions or expansions,
nor, for that matter, is musical use limited in principle to duple or
triple divisions and expansions. (The term metric, in English, to
describe the Système International (SI), in which measurements are
referenced to two standard units, the metre and the gram, refers to that
first unit and not to the decimal notation.)
Daniel Wolf
Frankfurt
John Howell wrote:
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
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