>I just looked at the online jazz song book >(http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/songbook/) and I was curious about how one of >the fields was to be interpreted. The abc file has: >v:chords "Am" x4 "GMaj" x4| ... >v:melody abcd defg|... > >And then at some point the chords and the melody are 'combined'. Is it >always assumed that a voice has chords and melody, so we should always >combine them like that? If that's true, how does that combine with the >other uses of the voice line where there is a number following then v: >symbol. Does each voice have a 'chord' and a 'melody' part, or is 'chord' >and 'melody' special voices that are treated differently. > >I want to incorporate this behavior into my program because I like the >convention, but I don't want to break other uses of the voice usage in the >7th symphony (which my program can parse, even though it doesn't all get >displayed correctly).
There are a lot of problems with usage of the V: field - it's not at all standardised. I wrote a summary of the differences between programs which you might find useful. It's at <http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/multivoice.txt> Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
