On Thu 15 Nov 2001 at 02:33PM -0000, Laurie Griffiths wrote: > The point is that 120 (or Allegro) means 120 of "something or other" every > minute. That "something" got called "beat" in some earlier postings and > there were proposals to define it via things like L:beat=3/8 and a scheme > proposed for sensible defaults which were not the same as the L: defaults. > > It then seemed to me that the "beat" was just exactly the first two numbers > in a Q:triplet.
Not true in general. You can choose these numbers however you like. > So that given what (in one scheme) might be written > Q:3/8=120 Allegro > the 120 is Allegro and the 3/8 is the beat. So I began to wonder whether > the "beat" thing was needed at all and whether, having defined Allegro as > 120 one could then say > Q:3/8=Allegro > and eliminating the "beat" syntax. And I'm still wondering. Any thoughts? > L. Currently abc does not define a "beat", so it is not there to be eliminated. If you choose to have a private convention where the Q: field defines what you call the "beat" then that is fine, but you cannot assume that other people have used the same convention. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
