Re: Terminology of baseMoment, beats, groups

[Urs Liska]

Am 11.11.2017 um 12:52 schrieb Urs Liska:
> "Beat" also refers to what a conductor would do. the 3+3+2 from my 
> example would be given as three "beats" by the conductor. Maybe your 
> perception of "beat" as necessarily regular comes from the fact that 
> in German we use "beat" too, but usually referring to specific styles 
> that are limited to regular beats ...

Ah yes, and in contemporary music, where heavily irregular metres like 
3/8 + 2/16 + 3/16 + 4/8 + 1/12 are common we'd also always refer to that 
as a measure with 5 beats of different length.