> On 7 Nov 2014, at 13:45, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hans Aberg <[email protected]> writes: > >>> On 7 Nov 2014, at 11:38, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hans Aberg <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>>> On 7 Nov 2014, at 10:08, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The question was when to use 4/4 and when to use C in a time >>>>> signature. This is not related to the accent structure of the music >>>>> as much as it is to the century of its origin and the conventions >>>>> used in its respective music field. Math does not provide answers to >>>>> the particular distinction this thread is about since the math behind >>>>> C and 4/4 is quite the same. >>>> >>>> The “+” notation I think is quite recent, possibly invented by Béla >>>> Bartók and Vinko Žganec for the description of Balkan meters. So the >>>> use of anything else than numerals is a modernity. >>> >>> We are talking about the use of C for 4/4. I doubt many people consider >>> that a modernity. >> >> In the compound time signatures “+” notation, that would be. > > I quote what the current discussion is about (cf > <URL:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/59535>): > > One more case: \compoundMeter #’(n d). The current implementation > prints this as a fraction (n/d), but I plan to change it to honor the > style unless somebody objects.
From what I can see in some books, one normally writes 4/4, but if one so likes, one may write C instead. Particularly popular music may refer the latter, since this meter is very common. > There is no "+" involved in that topic at all. You quote this and my > reply to it in > <URL:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/59538> > before adding a complex treatise not at all related to that particular > problem. I believe that the original intent of \compundMeter was to eventually capture what I described. > It takes considerable work going through those mathematical > elaborations, and if one finds at the end that it is not even relevant > to the question, that's mostly a wasted effort, likely affecting the > willingness of the reader to read through further similar postings. > > The end result then is that everybody's effort, including your own, is > wasted. Making sure that a reply applies to the question before > investing a lot of work saves everyone disappointment. Now you are intent of taking it in another direction. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
