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Re: Terminology of baseMoment, beats, groups


From: Urs Liska
Subject: Re: Terminology of baseMoment, beats, groups
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 21:30:45 +0100
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Am 11.11.2017 um 21:23 schrieb David Kastrup:
Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

Am 11.11.2017 um 15:30 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
When I look at http://openmusictheory.com/meter.html , the thing that we
call a beat in the c++ code is what openmusictheory calls a pulse.  And
what we call a beat group is what they call a beat.  In this context,
baseMoment is the length of a pulse.  And beatStructure defines the
lengths of each beat in the measure in pulses.  It would be a
straightforward first step to replace "beat" with "pulse", and "beat
group" with "beat" in both the c++ and scm code.
While I've never heard that term in this context I agree that pulse
and beat are good names for the things in question, and I suggest to
rename them in the code (while it shouldn't change anything in the
user-facing syntax). However, I wouldn't actually do that as an
independent patch but in the context of a more general reworking.
We don't really want code documentation and user documentation
divergent.

That being said, I find "pulse" distinctly awkward, but my vote against
it (as common terminology for both programmers and users) is to be
considered a user vote, not a maintainer veto.


Just for the record: I wouldn't object to keeping baseMoment, simply because it's a quite technical term that doesn't imply too much of a musical meaning.

Urs




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