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Name: Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
ID: m11888
Language: English (en)
Summary: In written music, standard note lengths are always halves (or halves of halves, and so on) of other note lengths. To get any other note length, dots, ties, or borrowed divisions must be used.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: dotted notes, tied notes, triplets
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.6 (history)
First publication date: Apr 5, 2004 11:22 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Mar 26, 2007 5:23 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m11888_1.6.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.6 Mar 26, 2007 5:23 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added notes9c alternate format in the CNXML
Version: 1.5 Mar 7, 2007 11:27 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added outline eps and svg files
Version: 1.4 Dec 18, 2006 10:57 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
updated links, small text changes
Version: 1.3 Feb 20, 2006 11:37 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Updated figures, made small text changes, added links.
Version: 1.2 Oct 14, 2004 3:36 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Rewrote "borrowed divisions and linked to "meter" module.
Version: 1.1 Apr 5, 2004 11:44 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Broke up "Duration" into three smaller modules.

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