I've been transcribing choruses of The Messiah. The voices are of course monophonic, but piano accompaniments have all sorts of nasties. I have found that shortest note determines when next note starts works well. You can always add a rest or two if that's not what you wanted.
Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation Bryan Creer wrote: >Henrik Norbeck wrote - > >>The alternatives "highest note" and "first-listed note" will cause >>problems, because they make it impossible to have chords with >>different note lengths, which breaks a lot of fiddle music, see >>example below. > >Obviously "highest note" wouldn't work for your example (Abacus makes a mess >of it) but I don't see why "first-listed note" couldn't work. Two of your >mixed length chords are already arranged that way and [d8D7] could be >rewritten [D7d8]. Using "first-listed note" seems to be the only method that >makes no assumptions about the music. None of the assumptions that the >shortest, longest or highest note is the melody note is necessarily true. I'm inclined to agree with Bryan here. I haven't paid much attention to this previously (it's not common in abc tunes, and I've never wanted to do it in any of my own transcriptions). Using the first-listed note is certainly the most flexible rule, and leaves the decision up to the transcriber. Now that I've come to look at what BarFly actually does with unequal chords I find that I've been quite inconsistent. While the player does what I said previously (takes the longest note as the length of the chord), if you have an unequal chord in one voice of a multi-voice abc, the notes get aligned using the length of the first-listed note. Maybe I'll change the player to match that. Henrik wrote: >X:1 >T:Målargubbens brudpolska That's one hell of an abc tune! I think I'll add that to my file of test tunes for torturing programs with. BarFly doesn't like the tie between non-contiguous notes (or rather, it doesn't recognise the notes as being contiguous), but if that is removed it displays OK. What it plays is not correct. Does abcMus play it correctly? Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
