Element: divisions
Description
Musical notation duration is commonly represented as fractions. The divisions element indicates how many divisions per quarter note are used to indicate a note's duration. For example, if duration = 1 and divisions = 2, this is an eighth note duration. Duration and divisions are used directly for generating sound output, so they must be chosen to take tuplets into account. Using a divisions element lets us use just one number to represent a duration for each note in the score, while retaining the full power of a fractional representation. If maximum compatibility with Standard MIDI 1.0 files is important, do not have the divisions value exceed 16383.
Derived By
Type positive-divisions
Restrictions
-
The value must be greater than 0.
Referenced By
- Complex Type attributes
Example
<attributes>
<divisions>32</divisions>
<key>
<fifths>0</fifths>
<mode>major</mode>
</key>
<time symbol="common">
<beats>4</beats>
<beat-type>4</beat-type>
</time>
<clef>
<sign>G</sign>
<line>2</line>
</clef>
</attributes>
<sound tempo="120"/>
<note default-x="80">
<pitch>
<step>A</step>
<octave>4</octave>
</pitch>
<duration>128</duration>
<voice>1</voice>
<type>whole</type>
</note>
