Other than cut time, most of the n/2 that I see (3/2, 4/2, and 6/2 are all I recall seeing off the top of my head) is in early music (where they're likely added by a modern editor -- if you have no bar lines, I'm guessing you also don't have a time signature)
No way. Time signatures predate barlines by a lot.
BTW, once upon a time, what we now call a whole note was a beat. That's why we we call 'em "whole notes".
While some 16th c. music was essentially noted with the half-note-equiv having the beat, an awful lot of period music, when transcribed into modern notation by modern (recent) editors, is halved: those 6/2 pieces were originally 6/1.
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No way. Time signatures predate barlines by a lot.
BTW, once upon a time, what we now call a whole note was a beat. That's why we we call 'em "whole notes".
While some 16th c. music was essentially noted with the half-note-equiv having the beat, an awful lot of period music, when transcribed into modern notation by modern (recent) editors, is halved: those 6/2 pieces were originally 6/1.