RE: Problem with \partial

[Anthony Youngman]

Well, there's English, and there's "English". I've come across the term
"anacrusis" and would never have thought of calling it a pickup. "lead
in" or "upbeat" are the terms I mostly hear people use, I think.

But then again, I'm strange :-) I talk about crotchets, minims etc. This
mailing list is about the only place I ever meet terms like "quarter
note".

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From:
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Sent: 13 July 2006 09:30
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Cc: Paul Scott
Subject: Re: Problem with \partial

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:01, Paul Scott wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> I like \partial as it is.  In my experience upbeat is the second half
of
> a beat where downbeat is the first half of a beat.  If it needs to be
> changed "pickup(s)" at least means what you seem to be referring to.

Anacrusis seems to be another related word:
http://www.music.vt.edu/MUSICDICTIONARY/texta/Anacrusis.html
A quick googling suggests that anacrusis and pickup seem to be the most 
correct terms, and then pickup is better because I have never heard the
word 
anacrusis. (unfortunately I'm not good at English musical terms; I only
know 
that the correct term in Swedish is 'upptakt'.)

I think Kieren is right too: it seems that both words can be used for
both 
meanings. However, it seems that pickup is more commonly used in the
meaning 
we want.

-- 
Erik


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