In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > >> >> 5. No mention of midline >> >What do you mean? >> >> Sorry, I abandoned a comment and forgot to complete >> it. I am thinking of the midline field in Clefs. > >I'm not sure what you mean. > >[K: clef=bass] or [K: bass] is legal.
Is it? I couldn't find it. Anyway the midline field attempted to define the middle line of say the bass clef as D or "D," to avoid too many leger lines. I never liked it anyway so glad it's gone. > >> I should have said non-Multiple Voiced Music: ie that which does not >> have any V: fields. All your clef definitions are in the Multiple Voice >> music section, so how to write the clef for viola music is not clear. > >The standard says in the key section: ><<See section Clefs for details how to change the clef >using the K field.>> > >And in the clef section: ><<A clef specification may be provided in K: and V: >fields.>> > >So [K: clef=alto] or [K: alto] will do the job. Then it should not be a subheading of the Multiple Voices section, but explicitly part of the K: Key section. Or at least say "the syntax is [K: | V:] [clef=] <clef name> .. etc" I looked in vain for any examples such as you have written above: the context indicated it was firmly fixed to V: notation. > >I guess I should make this clearer in the standard. :-) > >> "Strange" key sigs such as the above (while clear in >> intent) are very non-standard. Are they really >> necessary? I've never played from one and would >> actually find it very difficult to play _b ^f > >They are non standard in Western music, but you will >find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. >Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). > >> Anyway: have you abandoned the "global accidentals" idea? > >Most people on the list seemed to prefer "explicit >accidentals" over "global accidentals". Hm. I didn't see any discussion... > >Of course, we could introduce a %% directive like >%%global-accidentals 1 >to change the standard interpretation of the [K:] >field. > >Should I add that? No. I suggest you allow software to create either individual (global) accidentals or strange key sigs. My own software (to which abc is simply an add-on importing/exporting module) does not support strange key sigs so I will have to do this anyway. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
