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From: | Silvain Dupertuis |
Subject: | Re: irrational meters |
Date: | Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:40:15 +0100 |
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Thanks for the reference.
This wikipedia article in English does not have it's
counterpart in my language (French), but a corresponding but
different French article which does not mention this notion.
So this term “irrational” is indeed used that way in music (at least in English) — but I still think it would be better to use the terme «non dyadic», also mentioned in the article, so as to harmonize teminology between music and maths....
Silvain
On 17 Jan 2023, at 15:20, Silvain Dupertuis <silvain-dupertuis@bluewin.ch> wrote: I wonder about the term “irrational” meter. Should not we say “irregular” ?? as in mathematics, an irrational number is a number which cannot be represented as a fraction...The denominator is not a power of two. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Irrational_meters
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