On 2008/02/28 6:12 PM, "Anh Hai Trinh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have never heard the term polymeter. It does not show up in Grove Music > Online (actually once but refering to poetic meter), not a good sign! Wow ... and I don't have $295 in couch cushion change to spend (every year) on a subscription to Grove Music Online. (You must get a discount In case you missed the last part of my response of 27 February (7:53 am), I'll repeat it here: "... I did NOT intend for this framework to be a straitjacket. Folks who specialize in the tals you mentioned in your last email on the subject will continue to discuss them with *their* terms ... but when I ask them to explain it to me (a non-Indian), they can say 'Oh, it's a regular sequential polymeter that groups beats in groups of 3+2+ ... etc.'" > And according to Wikipedia Wikipedia IS NOT an authoritative source ... > polymeter implies polyrhythm and therefore is > equivalent to your "simulatenous polymeter" > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymeter>. That term should be out! ... But -- this isn't about "authoritative", it's about having a small set of well-defined terms to which everything else can refer to eliminate ambiguity. That's what "controlled vocabulary" means. (As for trying to be authoritative, I can't think of a better example than the aforementioned "tals". It would be the height of arrogance if I presumed that "sequential polymeter" was an adequate replacement for "tal".) > The equivalent term to your "sequential polymeter" that I've heared and > used is "changing meters" or "irregular meter". > > * double time sig -- too ambigous whether it's simultaneous or sequential > * compound time sig -- this is a well established term refering to meter > such as 6/8, 9/8, 6/4, etc. in contrast to simple meters such as 3/8, 3/4, > etc. > * additive time sig -- could mean sth like (3 + 3 + 2)/8 or could mean > irregular meters a la Messian > * alternating time sig -- a special case of changing/irregular meter And with a standard, *controlled* vocabulary, we can disambiguate each and every one of these. Oh ... and I said that I was only planning to delete one of the previously existent terms as hopelessly vague ... I planned to keep the rest of them. K _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
