Re: Proposed context property renaming

[Kieren MacMillan]

>> Kieren earlier spoke in favor of whatever is most comprehensible to users.
>> To me, musicLength seems completely clear and unambiguous.

> Please step outside LilyPond for a moment.
> 
> Do you see books written about music and musicians, or about music theory,
> using the phrase "music length"?
> 
> When you spend time with a score, getting ready to analyze it, do you look
> at the "music length" of notes and rests on the page?
> 
> If you were going to write about a piece of music to a friend or colleague,
> would you write about the variety of "music lengths" you find in the piece?

+1

When I teach Introduction to Music Theory, the first unit I teach is “The 
Elements of Music”.

“Duration” is one of the Elements of Music. (Not coincidentally, it’s also one 
of the Landau/Bogart Viewpoints!)
“Length” is not one of the Elements of Music.

Kieren
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