Some of the earliest Western Classical composers were monks and nuns (shout out to Hildegard von Bingen!). Most of Europe at the time was Roman Catholic, and the Roman Catholic Church used Latin.
This makes sense considering that in the early days of modern musical notation (around 1000-1200 AD/CE), music was very important to religion. Music terminology from the United Kingdom, such as breve, crotchet, quaver, minim, has its roots in Latin. If you’re a student somewhere else, you might think that this music note makes a different sound than “ti”, but did you know that in some places the eighth note has a different name too? If you’re from the United Kingdom, you probably call this music note a “quaver!” Different countries have different musical terminology, which makes sense when different languages are spoken, but why are there TWO systems for English-speaking countries? Beyond the Quaver: Where (and When) Music Terms Came From If you study music in the United States, then you know that we call this an “eighth note”, and as a Hoffman Academy student, you know that it makes the sound “ti”. It could even also be made to work on a selection as originally proposed.What is a quaver in music? Learn about quavers and discover other music note names below But perhaps a new "Create dotted rhythm" command could be created that did exactly that. I just wonder if it wouldn't make sense to change the behavior of the existing "Increase duration dotted" command to also do a "Decrease active duration". Meaning, you can enter your dotted sequence almost as easily as what I proposed above: The pair "" now does what we need - it adds a dot to the current note, and halves the active duration in preparation for the next note. Also, we have the existing "Increase duration dotted" command with a shortcut Shift+W, and a "Decrease active duration" that if *combined" with Shift+W, would be the equivalent of the "]" command I described above.Ģ) Define "" as shortcut for "Decrease active duration"Ĥ) Define "\" as shortcut for "Increase active duration It is called "Increase active duration", and there is no shortcut by default, but you can define one in Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts. For one thing, we already have the equivalent of the "\" command to double duration for the next note. Now, as I think this through, I'm struck by how much of this already exists. With this in place, you could enter a whole sequence dotted rhythms as follows: So, after entering the semiquaver (sixteenth), hitting "/" would set the duration for the next note back to quaver (eighth). The "/" command would simply double the duration for the next note. So, after entering a quaver (eighth note), hitting "]" would add a dot but change the duration for the next note to semiquaver (sixteenth). The "]" command would add a dot to the most recently entered note and would also halve the duration for the next note. The shortcuts could be anything, but I'll use keystrokes "]" and "/" for now to illustrate. I can see a way forward where we introduce two new commands. FWIW, I'd like to consider this from another angle: how could we make dotted rhythms easier to enter, in a way that feels natural (i.e., without re-inventing the whole note input system)?
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