In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:11:44PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> > >> >> And from the abc source you have written >> >> >> >> K:A_b^f^c >> >> >> >> shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? >> > >> >It definitely shouldn't have a G#, since the Gs aren't sharp. >> >> So you are saying that >> >> K:A has 3 sharps >> >> K:A _b has no sharps and one flat instead? >> >> This is totally illogical. I can understand K:A _b to mean 3 sharps and >> add a b flat but what now is the significance of the A? > >As I said, Amix would have been better. > >What I was trying to notate was a key signature of Bb f# c# > >So, having clarified my mind, I hope, thanks to John, either >K:Amix Bb >or >K:A _Bb ^f ^c >since in the 1st, stating the mode brings its keysig in, and in the 2nd, >not stating it doesn't imply any key signature. > >In either case, the significance of the A is that it's the root note of >the tune. > >> The root note is totally irrelevant to anything. > >I don't think so. > >> As you indicate, >> sometimes there is argument about it anyway. > >I said I might change my mind about what it is. That hardly implies that >it doesn't exist. But the indication that I'd think about it suggests >that I'd then like to record it. As I can. > >> Now I don't really mind >> having minor keys as they are well established, and maybe even the modes > >Very tolerant of you .... ;)
Well they're not really needed now, are they? There's no separate notation for them. However I had not allowed for the use of abc files as a database. In that case I can see a use for a tonic= or mode description. > >> but in the case of made-up key signatures described exactly in a K: >> format I don't see the point. Make that K:_b^f^c in your example above. > >As above, I wouldn't want to have to throw the root note away. Why >should I, what's the advantage ? > As I have proposed in another post, how about K:_b^f^c tonic=A ? Bernard Hill Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
