Jack Campin writes:
> I use A: for the author of the words.  This violates the 1.6 spec,
> but the "area" idea just doesn't work - you can't fit the geographic
> description of a tune into a one-liner.

And in another email continues:
> Better to use the O: field hierarchically:
> 
> O:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
> O:Bradford and Bingley, Yorkshire, England

There is a corpus of music that uses both the A: and O: fields.  In these
cases "origin" O: is used not as a country or province name, but in the
sense of "nationality" and "area" A: is used as the geographic designator.

This example (slightly edited) from Steve Allen's "An ABC Library of Morris
Tunes" <http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/> shows how tunes have been
transcribed out of Lionel Bacon's "Handbook of Morris Dancing".

Why not use "composer/author" C: like the standard specifies rather than
bullying it into A:?  Are you using "author" in some special sense?  How
about:
C: John Lennon, music
C: Paul McCartney, words

%abc
X:1
T:Beaux of London City
M:9/8
C:
S:Bacon (News)
N:transposed from F to G
A:Adderbury
O:English
R:Slip Jig
P:A.(AB3)6
K:G
P:A
|:\
   D | G>GG BAG B<d D | G2G  B2A  G2 \
   D | G>GG BAG B<d D | G>DG B2A  G2 :|\
P:B
%?: the music demands a rest, but it is not in Bacon
|:     d2c  BAG Bd2   | A2A  A2B  c3 |\
       d2c  BAG B<d D | G>DG B2A  G2 :|

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