Names of notes and rests in French

[Claude Routhier]

Hello !

I found your article
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/music-glossary/source/Documentation/user/music-glossary.html
very informative and amazingly complete.

But there is a major problem with the name of notes and rests.

In English (and maybe in other languages), the name of both notes and rests are
the same. But that is NOT the case in French.

I was consulting your web site to find the French name of the "breve rest" on
your web page. Not only did I not find the answer to my question, it turned out
the French names of all the rests are MISSING too.

What you listed was the NAMES OF NOTES only.

May I propose what is missing? Here is the French names of RESTS:

U.K. NAMES                U.S. NAMES          FRENCH
breve rest                double whole rest   (double-pause???)
semibreve rest            whole rest          pause
minim rest                half rest           demi-pause
crochet rest              quarter rest        soupir
quaver rest               eighth rest         demi-soupir
semiquaver rest           sixteenth rest      quart de soupir
demisemiquaver rest       thirty-second rest  huitième de soupir
hemidemisemiquaver rest   sixty-fourth rest   seizième de soupir

Grouping the names of notes and rests is a very bad idea in the perspective of
the French language. Whatever you choose to do, I would like you to include the
French names of rests, too.

Apart form this problem, I found your web page very well done. This is a
reference worth saving for future inquiries.

Sincerely,

Claude Routhier,
Montréal