On Jan 22, 2004, at 12:11 AM, John Chambers wrote:
One problem that I see with the above example is that the K
line gives C as the tonic. It really should be K:D... The
notation has been suggested:
K:D_E_B bayati
This would mean a tonic of D, a key signature of _E_B, and
Yeah the C is
Jeff Senn wrote:
I'm a newcomer here. Has the issue of non-12 tone music come up here
before?
I don't see anything in the pending standard about it...
A lot of middle eastern (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, etc...) music is
based
on a quarter-tone (24 division) system; or in the case of some
| Jeff Senn wrote:
|
| I'm a newcomer here. Has the issue of non-12 tone music come up here
| before?
...
| I recently snagged a copy of John Chambers's jcabc2ps so I could print
| some
| tunes and modified it for my purposes. The 'quick hack' I used was to
| use ^/ and _/ to represent
On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
I was considering exactly the same: Just hack the half-sharps and
half-flats
in there. At the moment I'm trying to compile LilyPond, which has all
the
microtonal stuff already in there. but I'm glad all the
ABC-programs
are so easy to
On Jan 21, 2004, at 12:49 PM, John Chambers wrote:
I also googled around a bit for the notation that people
use for quarter-tone accidentals. I did find a number of
other symbols. The symbols now in jcabc2ps do seem to be
the most common, according to google, but that doesn't mean
much.
I'm a newcomer here. Has the issue of non-12 tone music come up here
before?
Yes, I've posted two or three fairly detailed proposals over the years,
covering both playback and printing.
A lot of middle eastern (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, etc...) music is
based on a quarter-tone (24
On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
Yes, I've posted two or three fairly detailed proposals over the years,
covering both playback and printing.
I did not find them in the archive. Can you give me a pointer?
A lot of middle eastern (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, etc...) music is
based on
On 21 Jan 2004, at 21:55, Jeff Senn wrote:
On Jan 21, 2004, at 12:49 PM, John Chambers wrote:
This does seem like a possibly desirable use of the
substitution-type macro. I've seen microtone notation
that uses an assortment of symbols. If we allowed notation
like ^3/24, people might
On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Phil Taylor wrote:
Not just a proposal but a working implementation in use in BarFly
for many years. John's suggestion would work. Given the macro
definition:
m: Pn = ^3/24n
Hm. I will go look at the docs. But that is just for ornament, yes?
And just for notes? It is
Jeff Senn sez:
| On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Phil Taylor wrote:
| Not that I think that a particularly useful approach, since as
| Jack says, musicians who use these pitches don't think of them
| as fractional; we really should not adopt something which is
| totally at odds with existing
I'm a newcomer here. Has the issue of non-12 tone music come up here
before?
I don't see anything in the pending standard about it...
A lot of middle eastern (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, etc...) music is
based
on a quarter-tone (24 division) system; or in the case of some Turkish
music up to 48
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