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Re: hang --"going backwards in time; " "insane spring distance requested


From: Trevor Bača
Subject: Re: hang --"going backwards in time; " "insane spring distance requested"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:06:58 -0600

On Nov 27, 2007 12:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> 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*?




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