On Thu 15 Nov 2001 at 01:07AM -, Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Is there any mileage in something like
Q:Allegro=120 % definition
...
Q:3/8=Allegro % use, meaning that the beat is 3/8 in this case
No mileage in my book. The word Allegro describes the whole tempo
[Q:3/8=120] not just one
The Playford files have been all over the web for ages, and I've never
heard of anybody claiming copyrights for them.
As far as I understand, this was originally two or more independent
projects that gradually merged. I don't know if it was ever finished.
I think the project's main home on the
The point is that 120 (or Allegro) means 120 of something or other every
minute. That something got called beat in some earlier postings and
there were proposals to define it via things like L:beat=3/8 and a scheme
proposed for sensible defaults which were not the same as the L: defaults.
It
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd rather stay away from L:. A quick look through some of my collection
shows that it would give the wrong beat more often than not.
James Then presumably you are not using the Q: field as defined.
But we aren't
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Is there any mileage in something like
Q:Allegro=120 % definition
...
Q:3/8=Allegro % use, meaning that the beat is 3/8 in this case
I didn't like it at first glance, but the more I think about it, the more
sense it makes. The only problem I
James, it looks as though you missed the beginning of this sub-thread:
The problem was if we define words to mean particular rates e.g. lento=60,
Allegro=120, vigorous skipping=95 etc, it begs the questions 60 what?,
120 what? etc.
120 L units seems to often give silly answers, so we are
At 11:40 AM 11-15-2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
A couple of questions:
Q:Allegro
Should display Allegro. But for playback, should it use a default
tempo, or take a reasonable guess as to the appropriate beat, or generate
an error? The same question applies if Allegro is used
Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
A lot of Playford stuff is available from the US Library of Congress
(they have a special page on the history of dancing, the URL of which
escapes me right now), so one could go back right to the original
sources to make sure that the ABCs in question are
At 08:12 PM 11-15-2001 +, Steve Mansfield you wrote:
Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
A lot of Playford stuff is available from the US Library of Congress
(they have a special page on the history of dancing, the URL of which
escapes me right now), so one could go back right to the
Is there any mileage in something like
Q:Allegro=120 % definition
...
Q:3/8=Allegro % use, meaning that the beat is 3/8 in this case
I hadn't thought about the problem of varying beat length in my initial
proposal and I should have.
What I would prefer would be to allow:
Q:[6/8]
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