On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM <lilypond-devel-requ...@gnu.org> wrote: > At 15:45 on 11 Jan 2025, Dan Eble wrote: > > Saul Tobin wrote at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2024-12/msg00048.html > > > In English, I would also use the term "note value" > > ... > > to describe something like "dotted quarter." > > I have been surfing the web reading about duration and I find sources > pushing me in different directions about whether "note value" refers > strictly to a power-of-two fraction of a whole note or also includes a > number of dots. For example, the notes { c4 c4. } have different > durations; do they also have different note values? > > I can't tell whether people disagree about the meaning of the term or > it's just being misused in some cases. > -- > Dan >
A note is not just a duration. It also consists of a pitch and volume (dynamic), as well as maybe a few other parameters I'm forgetting at the moment. So, to answer the question in the subject line: No. --- Christopher Carl Heckman
