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Title: bloated and inaccurate
Review: Paul Creston in his authoritative "Rational Metric Notation" points out several of Garner Read's errors. Here is one:1) "Chapter 10 of Gardner Read's book 'Music Notation', entitled 'Meter and Time Signatures,' begins: 'TIME, METER, TEMPO, RHYTHM--musicians often use these terms imprecisely. But the four expression are not synonymous, and only two are interchangeable. The analogous terms are TIME and METER...' The first sentence and the first phrase of the second sentence state a truism; the remainder of the statement vitiates the truth."The more than two dozen dictionary definitions of TIME can be condensed into one synonym, DURATION, which is present in every definiton of TIME. The word METER is derived from the Greek METRON, the Latin METRUM, and the French METRE; in ANY language, it means MEASURE. In music, therefore, TIME means DURATION, and METER means MEASUREMENT OF DURATION. Hence, TIME and METER are NOT analogous or interchangeable."
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