Re: Very Beginner's Guide

[Manuel]

Am 27/12/2006 um 14:12 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman:

> It gets worse :-) What the Americans call a full note, the English  
> call a semi-breve (literally, a "half-note")  :-)

Ah, but you may be wrong there: breve means short-timed, thus half-of- 
short, maybe even doubly-short. It is somehow funny that there never  
was a unit-note, as we would now call the whole note ("1")


Manuel


> So an American quarter-note is actually an eighth-note.  :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
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