Am Di., 6. Jan. 2026 um 10:17 Uhr schrieb Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]>: > > Hi Dan, > > > Would anyone here who teaches music in the English language encourage me to > > rename the NR node "Compound time signatures"? > > Yes. > > > What I remember being taught is that "compound" refers to meters with > > triplet subdivision, such as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8. > > Yes. > > > Calling the time signatures in that NR section "complex" would make more > > sense to me > > I could abide that. :) > > Other possibilities: “mixed meter” or “multi-meter”. > > Cheers, > Kieren.
Actually you could regard 4/4 as a compound meter, built from two 2/4, etc. For something like 5/8+3/4 I'd vote for "mixed-meter". Cheers, Harm
