Re: [abcusers] Scandinavian spirit (old msg) + some tunes

2001-11-02 Thread Laurie Griffiths
From: Forgeot Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suppose nobody at abcusers ever tastes anything with alcohol in it. I must have missed the beginning of this thread as I can't see who Eric was quoting. Sounds to me like a very strange assumption! Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Phil Taylor
Gianni Cunich wrote: I won't let your offensive emails drive me away... Do you actually wish to ask Toby making this a censored list? Not a bad idea actually. Why don't we take a vote on expelling Gianni from the list? Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 01:22PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 04:59PM +0100, Forgeot Eric wrote: Sharps, flats and natural signs may be indicated in guitar chords using '\#', '\b' and '\='.

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Friday 02 November 2001 04:31, Phil Taylor wrote: Gianni Cunich wrote: I won't let your offensive emails drive me away... Do you actually wish to ask Toby making this a censored list? Not a bad idea actually. Why don't we take a vote on expelling Gianni from the list? Phil Taylor

Re: [abcusers] requesting goodies from developers

2001-11-02 Thread Jack Campin
The user makes more difference than the developer here. If an ABC file is clearly written *as source*, with the right choice of default note length and laid out with some regard to the musical structure, it's easy to work round dialect differences because you can see what you're editing.

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Just for the record: I've just set up an e mail filter to autmotacially remove all messages with the subject Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was). Can smeone tell me when this is over? Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [abcusers] Scandinavian spirit (old msg) + some tunes

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: From: Forgeot Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suppose nobody at abcusers ever tastes anything with alcohol in it. I must have missed the beginning of this thread as I can't see who Eric was quoting. Me. I was posting a Scandinavian drinking song a while ago, of

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: If you really want to put forward a serious proposal for features to be added to a new standard you must first study _all_ of the existing programs, and come up with something which minimises the changes which have to be made to all of the existing code and invalidates

Re: [abcusers] Scandinavian spirit (old msg) + some tunes

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Forgeot Eric wrote: I suppose nobody at abcusers ever tastes anything with alcohol in it. No I don't, except in cakes or pancakes now. I became sober after having tasted in Norway hjemmelaget whiskey [homemade whiskey, a really horrible thing for health]... :) Let this be a warning to

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread James Allwright
On Fri 02 Nov 2001 at 06:48AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 04:59PM +0100, Forgeot Eric wrote: Sharps, flats and natural signs may be

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread Laura Conrad
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Ok, you have a point here, but I've never actually seen natural signs James used in chords. Maybe not, but they're used in figured bass all the time. And the chord syntax is one of the possible ways to notate figured bass in

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Frank == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank And, oh yes, let's start discussing something really simple. We all need Frank some discussing practice before we try to handle the big stuff. So propose a topic. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote: Well, at this point Gianni has earned himself the sad distinction of being the only individual whose posts I have filtered, on any list, ever. Same here. Likewise, a first. If/when I see responses from other list members that indicate he's

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread Laura Conrad
jhoerr == jhoerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe not, but they're used in figured bass all the time. And the chord syntax is one of the possible ways to notate figured bass in ABC. jhoerr Would this hold up under transposition? A sharp 6 in the key of G jhoerr

[abcusers] What is Figured Base ?

2001-11-02 Thread James Allwright
On Fri 02 Nov 2001 at 09:32AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Ok, you have a point here, but I've never actually seen natural signs James used in chords. Maybe not, but they're used in figured bass all the time. And the chord

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread Stephen Black
A possible topic? Is there an abc program that will play Eunich, oops, I meant Unix based tunes, and all of the other formats on a PC? If not, why? And if not, what is the point of a standard when many of the tunes are incompatible to ALL o/s formats. Perhaps those lofty developers resident

Re: [abcusers] What is Figured Base ?

2001-11-02 Thread Laura Conrad
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Can you explain what figured bass is ? This isn't a term that I James recognize. When Baroque composers were writing for a bass instrument that could play chords, they wrote the bass line, and sometimes indicated what chord

Re: [abcusers] What is Figured Base ?

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: But if you transcribe baroque music at all, you are going to want to be able to transcribe the figures. Most keyboard parts to baroque ensemble pieces that you've ever seen were what's called realizations of the figured bass, where the editor filled in what a keyboard

Re: [abcusers] What is Figured Base ?

2001-11-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
James Allwright wrote: Can you explain what figured bass is ? This isn't a term that I recognize. From the Musica Viva Encyclopedia of music (http://www.musicaviva.com/encyclopedia/index.tpl): Basso continuo (It.) Also called continuo or figured bass. Basso continuo is a system for

[abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #584

2001-11-02 Thread Spotbeagle
First why does digest come from UnknownSender@UnknownDomain? What kind of list is this any way. A couple of weeks ago, when I signed up, I got a couple of tunes, that was cool. Now it's all about a bunch of arguing about arguing, about a code that apparently changes every time someone writes

[abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #584

2001-11-02 Thread Spotbeagle
What are you guys trying to do kill a good thing with your bickering

Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! voting for abc standard

2001-11-02 Thread jhoerr
On 2 Nov 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: But in most of the music I work with, X is used for both a sharp and a natural on a note which would otherwise be flatted. So my guess is that you don't really have to transpose the sharps in the figures to naturals, either. Someone who knows more than I

Re: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #584

2001-11-02 Thread Lwasr
Please remove my name from the mailing list. Following directions does not work. Too much nastiness here. L. Allen

[abcusers] something really simple

2001-11-02 Thread Jack Campin
And, oh yes, let's start discussing something really simple. We all need some discussing practice before we try to handle the big stuff. Okay: tempi in words. It ought to be possible to write Q:allegro in a tune header or [Q:allegro] in a tune body, and optionally define outside