> I think there are already examples where extra information
> may need to be added in order to make abc unambiguous. A simple
> example is making | Ac Bd | sound a little more like |A>c B>d |
> simply by adding R:hornpipe to the header.
except that hornpipes aren't always played dotted. You would need
yet *another* level of extra information to say the style you're
using is one where this dotted interpretation is appropriate.
The R: field is long due for deprecation. There is no standard
list of what rhythms it covers and what to do with them, and nobody
seems interested in making it extensible in any way that would allow
different users to agree on what their extensions mean. Why not
just let it die so that the name can be reused for something more
important and more definable?
And some of the rhythmic types found in folk music are unimplementable
by any playback software. A slow strathspey is intrinsically a form
where the player is *expected* to do their own thing with the rhythm.
They are only ever played solo. What is a MIDI program supposed to do
with this? Rubato driven by a random number generator?
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