On 24/09/12 18:27, David Kastrup wrote:
I don't like it since it does not match musical concepts. You would not
talk about "12th notes" to other musicians.
That's not entirely true. Contemporary composers (I think Ferneyhough started
it, others have continued it) have used time signatures like x/10, x/6, etc.
(which Lilypond already supports) where the base unit is a quintuplet-eighth, a
triplet-quarter, etc.
(There are earlier examples of equivalent time signatures, e.g. in Boulez, but
they don't use the simple ratio -- Boulez writes things like (4 + 2/3)/4 where
Ferneyhough would have written 7/6.)
Given such a musical context, it may make more sense to write,
\time 4/10
c'10 \times 2/3 { c'10 c' c' } c'20 c'
than,
\time 4/10
\times 4/5 { c'8 \times 2/3 { c'8 c' c' } c'16 c' }
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