Re: A note on notes

[Alexandra Hettergott <a.hettergott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Repp wrote :
>My main point was that "note" should not be used to refer to musical
>sounds.
Well, this sort of (mutually) exclusive usage might yet lead to further
(semantic) troubles, for instance, when using 'half' / 'semi-tone'
(i.e., a 'half step') instead of 'half note' (i.e., half the length of a
'whole note') in a pre / descriptive (referential) context, vice versa
(e.g., "the score provides playing a 'half note' lower" or "it sounded
just the length of a 'semitone'") ...
And what about 'rests' referring to 'silent events' ?

>The term "note" in music is analogous to the term "letter"
>in language, which also denotes a written symbol, not a sound.
Well, I'd consider musical 'notes' / symbols yet to a higher degree
being 'denoting' each (roughly) compared to single (Latin) language
'letters' (more sort of 'phonideograms' as in Chinese, again, where I
would include the whole notational context, though, not the notes alone)
...
:ah