Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread Till Rettig
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed das) Tupel is normally a vector and as a musical term seems to be as common as tuplet. For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole etc. the neologism would have to be die Tupole, but I

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread michał poręba
It seems to be a big problem for all of as. I am wanna-be polish translator and I have to admit that in my mother language people use tuplet, but only those who know Finale. None of encyclopedias, none of dictionaries I have mention that word. So what should I do? What should we do? Shell we use

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/9/21, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In German the word is Tupel vs. Duole, Triole, Pentole etc. I never really heard Tupel in musical context, only mathemathically. My musical lexicon doesn't know it - but my favourite online dictionary doesn't know tuplet either. Yeah, I may be

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed das) Tupel is normally a vector and as a musical term seems to be as common as tuplet. For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole etc. the neologism would have to be die Tupole, but I

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Eyolf Østrem
2007/9/21, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I may be spreading unsubstantiated rumours here, but the term seems definitely to have shown up first in English (rather than FR or DE) and I *think* it actually originated in an early version of the Finale user manual (God help us). I've

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-24 um 14:24 schrieb Valentin Villenave: In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: since the terms we use are triolet == meaning triplet quartolet quintolet etc... We created the n-olet which is a

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2007/9/24, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: since the terms we use are triolet == meaning triplet quartolet quintolet etc... In Spanish there is a generic term

RE: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The word tuplet is certainly used in Coda Music Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted 1999, to mean triplets, quintuplets, and so on. (I used this before I discovered LP, and still have a copy). Don't know if this was the first

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Knoop
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The word tuplet is certainly used in Coda Music Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted 1999, to mean triplets, quintuplets, and so on. (I used this before I discovered LP, and still have a copy). Don't

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such *things*

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-19 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such *things* are so rude I can't consider posting any of them here...