Christopher Heckman <christopher.heck...@asu.edu> writes: > 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. > > 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.
I've just did a switch to German, and "Notenwert" would be pretty much the duration. I cannot rule out that for native English speakers, "note value" has the right connotations. However, for "computer English" speakers, "value" may have more of a specific meaning/connotation, making the term more problematic for an international audience than a native English one that is used to, well, compounding compound words. -- David Kastrup
