I. Oppenheim writes: | On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: | | > Is ~ a roll or a turn? | | According to ABC 1.7.6, it's a roll:
Of course, a lot of people would ask "What's the difference?" ;-) And a lot of arrogant musicians (like me) would say "Who cares?" and interpret it as a suggestion to ornament the note, deciding on the spur of the moment what ornament to play. | The + notation has since long been deprecated. Which does remind me of a suggestion I've long thought of making: Any Baroque musician is familiar with the convention that a '+' above a note means "Ornament this note somehow". It's a generic, unspecific ornament symbol. I personally would like it to mean this in abc. This really just means that '+' would be added to the list of ornament symbols, and the default display form is merely a '+' above the note. It should be definable, of course. And a clever abc player program could pick a random ornament from its repertoire. Of course, a really clever player program could do this with any ornament symbol, preferably looking at the note's length and picking an ornament that fits within that length. Then the program would be approaching the level of an arrogant musician. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
