| What sort of a scale would use ^G_A^B?
|
| _E^F_B or _E^F_B^C definitely make sense (tonic is D).
Yup; I use both of those. However, the first corresponds to two
different scales that are common in the Balkans, with tonics C and D.
The second I only know with a tonic of D,
John Henckel remarked:
| I don't think the abc standard should allow K:^g _a ^b
I.e., you don't think ABC should be used to transcribe music that
uses scales other than the classical western-European modes. Or, if
people insist on doing such a thing, they should be forced to
What sort of a scale would use ^G_A^B?
_E^F_B or _E^F_B^C definitely make sense (tonic is D).
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Frank Nordberg wrote:
A problem with the O'Neill tunes is that many of them doesn't
seem to have a clearly defined tonal centre at all.
Ah, that's interesting. I think it's one of the great interests
of the tunes, rather than a problem, but of course Frank's talking about
notational
John Walsh wrote:
| Frank Nordberg wrote:
| A problem with the O'Neill tunes is that many of them doesn't
| seem to have a clearly defined tonal centre at all.
|
| Ah, that's interesting. I think it's one of the great interests
| of the tunes, rather than a problem, but of
Frank wrote:
A problem with the O'Neill tunes is that many of them doesn't
seem to have a clearly defined tonal centre at all.
Surely, you don't mean to say that this is "[a] problem with the
O'Neill tunes." The problem is that we are using a protocol that
doesn't deal well with such tunes.
