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There probably eventually needs to be a "search tips" section, to warn users of certain metrical pitfalls, e.g., that an 87.87.87.87 tune may fit iambic but not trochaic texts, or vice versa, or that a text with a meter 87.87.337 may have been fitted to a tune with a meter of 87.87.67. | |||
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Revision as of 22:40, 11 April 2006
Consulting the metrical indices for hymn tunes in sundry hymnals, there seem to be two major systems of organization. However, finding 88.88 in a hymntune index is rare; this meter is almost always categorized as "LM", and the listings for the three customary abbreviations (SM, CM, LM) and their derivatives, "with refrain", and the abbreviations for the doubled forms- SMD, CMD, LMD, all precede the numerically designated categories.
This organizations system may be worth consideration.
ns 2006 April 11 1708 CDT
There probably eventually needs to be a "search tips" section, to warn users of certain metrical pitfalls, e.g., that an 87.87.87.87 tune may fit iambic but not trochaic texts, or vice versa, or that a text with a meter 87.87.337 may have been fitted to a tune with a meter of 87.87.67.
ns 2006 April 11 1713 CDT.