From: "Phil Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC20-draft review > Arent Storm wrote: > > >* ~ I always thought that ~ is used for a prall-trill by default. > >Hardly anybody will know what an Irish-roll is (is it eatable?) > > I'll bet there are at least a hundred times as many abc users > who know what an Irish Roll is as there are those who recognise > what a prall-trill is. Actually, I think the English word for it > is Pralltriller, but most people would call it an upper mordent, > and in abc it's normally represented by the letter P. I have seen lots of ~ but rarely seen any P Most musicians will know the ~ sign but most will call it by different names; I see the ~ sign as the most common embellishment-sign in any (folk)music I've seen
> The meaning of ~ is context-dependent. In classical music > it will mean a turn (that's what the symbol looks like), and in > most places a turn symbol in the staff notation will be correct. > What kind of twiddle gets played depends on the tradition that > the music comes from. Agree > > >* clefs: > >Is "K: Am transpose=-2 " illegal where "K: Am treble transpose=-2 " is not > > No. transpose (or t=) is a directive which affects only playing and > has nothing to do with clefs, so both are legal. I meant illegal in the sense of the draft spec. > >''clef'' starts the specication (I'd rather like to see clef=clefname than clef > >alone > > Why? The clef names "treble", "alto", "tenor" and "bass" are all unique > identifiers which can't mean anything but a clef, so clef= is redundant. > More complicated clef specifications should use the clef= syntax though. It makes the use of the K: field for at least anything other than key more readable / parseable / orthogonal > >*voices > > state that all voices to be mentioned in the abc-body have to be declared > > in the header when using the [V:ID] syntax, where each ID will be > > referenced over and over. > It's good practice, but I don't see why it should be mandatory. To enable software to flag possible typo's when you have <header> V:First V:Second V:Third <body> [V:Fisrt] <someoabcline2> [V:Second]<someabcline3> [V:Third]<someabcline> What should a program do on encounter of [V:Fisrt] with or without the header. Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
