On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:18 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
What struck me immediately is Owain's use of the word "tuplets"
for "non-binary division of the beat" when only a Finale user has
ever heard or would understand such a term.
oooooops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet
Okay, so non-Finale-users have the opportunity to look it up and find
out what it means. But I would REALLY like to know where this word
came from. I had never heard it before using Finale, and I still only
ever see it used by Finale users (the Wikipedia article
notwithstanding; I suspect it was written by a Finale user (first
entry 2004) and the word doesn't appear in any other dictionary).
Discussion on Wiki about the etymology of the word is inconclusive
(last entry Nov 2007 doesn't cite any sources for the word, though
someone tried to link it to the mathematical term "tuple" meaning
sequence.)
I always assumed that the programmers (or technical writers) for
Finale had invented the term. One user on Wiki claims to have used it
and read it long before Finale existed, but provides no citations.
Can you prove me wrong?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tuplet
Christopher
(P.S., I see that tuplets and irrational rhythms are not actually the
same thing. Makes perfect sense to me now, but I had never needed to
make the distinction before! What does that say about my pretense of
musical sophistication?) 8-)
(P.P.S., It's nice to have the time to look into such matters now,
rather than rush to the next deadline! Well, for another week or so,
anyway...)
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