Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Dafydd Hughes
> > Time signatures are crap. They should have switched to a number > > over a note value a long time ago; we could have easily avoided > > abominable travesties like the time signature on the 2nd > > movement of Beethoven's 9th (B needed four over dotted quarter). If > > music notation had been in

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:35:39 -0300, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 2007-12-17, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 16 dic, 06:40, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> [btw, off topic, in music, isn't 1/4 and 2/8 different? I'm not very >>> keen of music though, so c

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Terry Reedy
"Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out... | > | | > | I don't think this is technically true, but I've never been able to | > | tell the difference. | > | > I learned three-four, four-four, six-eight, etc.

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 16, 2007 10:32 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |> Since the US, at least, uses > whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth... > | > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out... > | > | I do

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Terry Reedy
"Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> Since the US, at least, uses whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth... | > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out... | | I don't think this is technically true, but I've never been able to | tell the diffe

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Greg Lindstrom
> > As a time signature 1/4 has no sense, You've never played and Grainger, have you? :-) --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-12-17, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 dic, 06:40, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [btw, off topic, in music, isn't 1/4 and 2/8 different? I'm not very >> keen of music though, so correct me if I'm wrong.] > > As a time signature 1/4 has no sense, but 3/4 and 6/8 are

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-16 Thread Dan Upton
> Since the US, at least, uses whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth... > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out... I don't think this is technically true, but I've never been able to tell the difference. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-16 Thread Brian Victor
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > On 16 dic, 06:40, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [btw, off topic, in music, isn't 1/4 and 2/8 different? I'm not very >> keen of music though, so correct me if I'm wrong.] > As a time signature 1/4 has no sense Actually, I'm playing a show right now that has a one b

[OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-16 Thread Gabriel Genellina
On 16 dic, 06:40, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [btw, off topic, in music, isn't 1/4 and 2/8 different? I'm not very > keen of music though, so correct me if I'm wrong.] As a time signature 1/4 has no sense, but 3/4 and 6/8 are different things. In the standard musical notation both numbers ar