[CM] rhythm durations and rests

[Rick Taube]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 3:45 AM, pete moss wrote:

> is there somewhere a list of the builtin rhythmic durations, such as q,
> e, h, w, etc?

well that certainly shuld be documented! and it is in the book, but im 
not sure its worth buying just for that table. so here it is -- use 
fixed width font to display or the tables wont make any sense.

this doc addtion will be in CVS in an hour or so:


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A rhythmic symbol consists of a metric letter (Table 1) that may be 
optionally preceded by a division letter: t for triplet or q for 
quintuplet, and optionally followed by any number of dots. Rhythmic 
symbols also support addition, subtraction and multiplication.

Table 1. Metric Letters.
letter	value         letter  value
m        maxima         q       quarter
l        longa          e       eighth
b        brevis         s       sixteenth
w        whole          t       thirty-second
h        half           x       sixty-fourth

The following table shows some representative rhythmic symbols.

Table 2. Examples of rhythmic symbols.
type                              symbol
quarter                           q
triplet quarter                   tq
dotted-eight                      e.
triplet dotted sixteenth          ts.
triple dotted half	h...
quintuplet whole	qw
sixteenth plus triplet quarter    s+tq
whole minus triplet sixteenth     w-ts
whole times 4                     w*4