doubts about music theory books

In effect it is not a fraction, no one notices a fraction in a score. In "spoken" and non-scholarly language, 4/4 is indicated to be understood... but as for the symbols, you can take them from Font Maestro on the computer and write all the metric indications you desire

Fox wrote:

Hi, thanks for the answer

4/4 is not a fraction but just a time indication, that's how I studied it.. then they call it a metric fraction, but it's not right (so teachers say)

Agreed. What is it?

Tiger wrote:

In fact, it is not a fraction; no one notices a fraction in a score. In "spoken" and non-scholarly language, 4/4 is indicated to be understood... but as for the symbols, you can get them from Font Maestro on the computer and write all the metric indications you desire

What I mean is that if you speak of 4/4, you are still expressing a metric indication in the form of a fraction, and it is not just a graphic matter because, even if you change the fonts, the meaning of the symbol will always be to represent the capacity of a measure expressed with a number that divides it into a total number of parts (i.e., fractions).

Yes, in the end even this makes sense to me, it's just that they caused me a bit of confusion by telling me "it is called a fraction but in reality it isn't".

Anyway, thanks everyone!