Re: Issue 3286: add single-C time signature style (issue 164830043 by address@hidden)

[Joram]

Hi Dan,

Am 26.10.2014 um 22:19 schrieb Dan Eble:
> > On Oct 26, 2014, at 16:21 , Joram <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > The way I have been looking at it, c represents quadruple meter and ¢ 
> > > represents duple.
> >
> > This is an interpretation I guessed from 4/4=c and 2/2=¢, too. But I don’t 
> > think it is correct from the above mail by Simon, which I found quite 
> > convincing.
>
> He wrote, "alla breve means ‘in units of a brevis’, that is 4/2 or 2/1.”  I 
> don’t see how you can conclude that he meant that ¢ always means half notes.

I tried to get more informed and I now think I had a misunderstanding 
here. It is probably not possible to identify alla breve uniquely from 
the time signature fraction (neither numerator nor denominator). But 
both seem to be a viable way to me now.

> Simon, would you be kind enough to clarify it for us?

I would still appreciate that ;)

Cheers,
Joram