On 27 Nov 2007, at 19:06, Trevor Bača wrote:
> 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" ...)
There are in fact two traditions here: In the Germanic one (also used
in Sweden), only time signature where the upper number is 2 (resp. 3)
are called binary (resp. ternary). The English (or Latin) does
something else like what you say.
And it is formally incorrect to call the upper number a "numerator",
as a time signature written as
m
n
is defined as the note of duration 1/n taken m times.
Hans Aberg
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