Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread michał poręba
It seems to be a big problem for all of as. I am wanna-be polish translator and I have to admit that in my mother language people use tuplet, but only those who know Finale. None of encyclopedias, none of dictionaries I have mention that word. So what should I do? What should we do? Shell we use th

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread Till Rettig
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed "das") "Tupel" is normally a vector and > as a musical term seems to be as common as "tuplet". > For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole > etc. the neologism would have to be "die Tu

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2007/9/24, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation > we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: > since the terms we use are > triolet ==> meaning triplet > quartolet > quintolet > etc... > In Spanish there is a gene

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-24 um 14:24 schrieb Valentin Villenave: In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: since the terms we use are triolet ==> meaning triplet quartolet quintolet etc... We created the "n-olet" which is a neolog

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Eyolf Østrem
> 2007/9/21, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yeah, I may be spreading unsubstantiated rumours here, but the term > > seems definitely to have shown up first in English (rather than FR or > > DE) and I *think* it actually originated in an early version of the > > Finale user manual (God help us

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed "das") "Tupel" is normally a vector and > as a musical term seems to be as common as "tuplet". > For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole > etc. the neologism would have to be "die Tupo

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/9/21, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In German the word is "Tupel" vs. "Duole", "Triole", "Pentole" etc. > > I never really heard "Tupel" in musical context, only mathemathically. > > My musical lexicon doesn't know it - but my favourite online > > dictionary doesn't know "tuplet" either

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Knoop
Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> The word "tuplet" is certainly used in Coda Music >> Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted >> 1999, to mean "triplets, quintuplets, and so on". (I >> used this before I discovered LP, and still have a

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The word "tuplet" is certainly used in Coda Music > Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted > 1999, to mean "triplets, quintuplets, and so on". (I > used this before I discovered LP, and still have a > copy). Don't know if this was t

RE: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
> > On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > > > > > Trevor: there can be *no* name for such > hideous rhythms... :) > > > We may use "rythmes irrationnels" (one "h", > two "n"s), or > > > "monnayages", but generally speaking t

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > > > Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) > > We may use "rythmes irrationnels" (one "h", two "n"s), or > > "monnayages", but generally speaking the terms we use for s

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-19 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use "rythmes irrationnels" (one "h", two "n"s), or "monnayages", but generally speaking the terms we use for such *things* are so rude I can't consider posting any of them here