[OT] Fractions on musical notation

[Dan Upton]

On Dec 16, 2007 10:32 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> "Dan Upton" <upton at virginia.edu> wrote in message
> news:5504f9ac0712161822p76a87bc7h7b8b315e8a1e2968 at mail.gmail.com...
>
> |>         Since the US, at least, uses
> whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth...
> | > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out...
> |
> | I don't think this is technically true, but I've never been able to
> | tell the difference.
>
> I learned three-four, four-four, six-eight, etc. as time sigs.  Not a
> fraction.
>

I can't tell whether you're agreeing with me or not...

At any rate though, if time signatures really fell out as reducible
fractions, then why don't we just reduce 4/4 to 1 and call the whole
thing off? ;)