On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> Yep, thats absolutely true. But now go talk to musicians who work with
> traditonal western notation, and ask them to count backwards 8 beats
> from a given location. Let makes it half way through the 6/8 section.
> How many of them do you think are going to count quarter notes and how
> many are going to count in the meter denominator?
Well let's note* that traditional western notation itself does not make beats constant value. You have 4/4 and 8/8. Otherwise time signatures would not need a denominator at all. You'd just have a measure of 4 beats followed by 8 beats at double tempo. So the representation has utility other than as a way of counting and that is to make equal durations equal across meter changes. You can count it however you like, and not everyone always counts everything the same way. At least by making quarter notes equal we mirror music notation if not musician's (varying) preferences for counting.
In any case arguing this is quite academic since the API has shipped.
*note pun
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