Re: Is "note value" unambiguous?

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 15:45 on 11 Jan 2025, Dan Eble wrote:
>
> Saul Tobin wrote at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2024-12/msg00048.html
>
>  > In English, I would also use the term "note value"
>  > ...
>  > to describe something like "dotted quarter."
>
> I have been surfing the web reading about duration and I find sources
> pushing me in different directions about whether "note value" refers
> strictly to a power-of-two fraction of a whole note or also includes a
> number of dots.  For example, the notes { c4 c4. } have different
> durations; do they also have different note values?
>
> I can't tell whether people disagree about the meaning of the term or
> it's just being misused in some cases.
> --
> Dan
>

A note is not just a duration. It also consists of a pitch and volume
(dynamic), as well as maybe a few other parameters I'm forgetting at
the moment.

So, to answer the question in the subject line: No.

--- Christopher Carl Heckman