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fermata's hold a note or a rest longer than they are written... rail road tracks signify a complete break in the music. That similar to anything?

fermetta - u mean the hump with a dot in the middle?

i know wot u mean by rail road tracks now!

Yup. The very same. What do you call them over there?

erm 'pauses'!

then what about a GP?

well yeah - general pause!

lol

can't think of anymore atm!


Misscooldude

Nah - grand pause.

I actually had an interesting conversation with my flute prof yesterday afternoon about this very forum - she explained why the note names were different (like the quaver as opposed to the eighth note). Quite cool.

'why' the note names are different?

I would be quite interested to know the reasons - basically i know they are, but thats all!

Ask her if she knows of anything that may be different!

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I met a load of bass clarinet players over there - was funny

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Misscooldude

She said something about the American names being based on a 4/4 measure:

a whole note is 4 beats, a whole measure.
a half note is 2 beats, a half a measure.
and so on and so forth.

The English names are more historic - like going back to when they first wrote music down. Or so she says... she didn't give me much detail.

*runs to look at pics*

hehehe!

measure = time signature!

misscooldude

No no no...

measure=bar

4/4, 3/4, 6/8, etc - those are time signitures.

Curious, what do you call 2/2? It's got a slang name of "cut time" here and sometimes it looks like a C with a line through it...

well for us, 4/4 is common time and your 'cut time' i belive is half time/ half common time - but i'm, not sure!

Hmm...

*marks that one down for the dictionary*

booooooored
think up more words!!
lol
borrrrred!

Will when I get back from my class...

you've been in that class for a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long time!


lol

just to say hi again


Misscooldude

They're never ending.

Actually, I'm more at a loss of where to start... I'm assuming actual terms (accelerando, ritardando, etc) will be the same.

So.... notes and rests. How about formal equivalents?

Whole note
Half note
Quarter note
Eighth note (one flag)
Sixteenth note (two flags)
Thirty-second note (three flags)
Sixty-fourth note (four flags)

Whole rest
Half rest
Quarter rest
Eighth rest - etc.

mordant
trill
slur
tie
tremolo
measure
pick-up notes


er... more when I can think of some...

**Yes the terms - the italian wotsits, or maybe it is latin, will be the same!**

Whole note - Semibreve
Half note - Minim
Quarter note - Crotchet
Eighth note (one flag)- quaver
Sixteenth note (two flags)- semiquaver
Thirty-second note (three flags)- demi-semiquaver
Sixty-fourth note (four flags)- can't quite remember the name of these - would rather term - TOO FAST - GLISSANDO! lol - not sure

**by the way..............flags to us are tails!**

Whole rest
Half rest
Quarter rest
Eighth rest - etc.

**Just take all of our note names and add rest on the end!**

mordant
trill
slur
tie
tremolo
measure - bar
pick-up notes - up beat (maybe)

Lol - I wonder if you can think of any more!


Misscooldude

I wonder too... most everything else has a forgien name - Italian, French, German, whatever.

hellooooo! we havent posted on here for sooooo long!

how r u?
how wos ur christmas?