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 :| To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
