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From: | Manuel |
Subject: | Re: Very Beginner's Guide |
Date: | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:12:35 +0100 |
Am 27/12/2006 um 14:12 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman:
It gets worse :-) What the Americans call a full note, the English call a semi-breve (literally, a "half-note") :-)
Ah, but you may be wrong there: breve means short-timed, thus half-of- short, maybe even doubly-short. It is somehow funny that there never was a unit-note, as we would now call the whole note ("1")
Manuel
So an American quarter-note is actually an eighth-note. :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - address@hidden _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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