[gsharp-devel] "Bar" or "measure"

Eolin KB eolin at telia.com
Thu Aug 3 06:53:40 UTC 2006


Hello!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Strandh" <strandh at labri.fr>
To: <gsharp-devel at common-lisp.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: [gsharp-devel] "bar" or "measure"


> Hello,
>
> Magnus Johansson has suggested that Gsharp use the term "bar", rather
> than "measure" in the user documentation to indicate the music
> material between two barlines.
>
> The book by Ross uses "measure" rather than "bar" but it uses
> "barline", and not "measure line" (which I have never heard).  What do
> other authors use?

EMJ: I believe "bar" is being used more and more, and "measure" becoming 
obsolete. "Measure" is heard more often in the USA than elsewhere.

>
> Internally, of course, there is still a distinction between "bar",
> which is the music material between two barlines within a layer, and
> "measure" which is the music material between two barlines of every
> layer, but this fact does not necessarily influence our choice of
> user-level terminology.
>
> On the other hand, we might want to make that distinction to the user
> as well, in which case we might as well use the same one internally
> and to the user.

EMJ: Yes, absolutely. I would like to suggest: "system bar" instead of 
"measure".


> Comments?
> -- 
> Robert Strandh
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