Re: Terminology of baseMoment, beats, groups

[Simon Albrecht]

On 11.11.2017 12:30, David Kastrup wrote:
> I have a hard time seeing a "beat" as something that can have different
> lengths.

Musical notation isn’t well-defined in a mathematical or programming 
sense, so there are no such strict rules as all beats of a measure 
having to be the same length.
If nobody would refer to the last quarter note of 3+3+2/8 as “the third 
beat” then that’s because it would tend to be confusing.

Best, Simon