On Nov 27, 2007 12:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Trevor: > > > What frustrates me is that there's appearantly no *name* for the > > class of time signatures > > of the form m/n where n is *not* an integer power of 2. > > Fascinating observation! =) > > > If anybody has a good name for these meters, I would love to steal. > > n-ary meters? [...he offered, only half-jokingly...] Which would conflict with the senses of "binary" and "ternary" meters referring to the (sub)divisions of the *numerators* of meters, right? (6/8 and 9/8 are "ternary" in traditional score, 2/4, 4/4 are "binary" ...) How to draw attention to the *denominator*? -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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