| I've also found the phrase explicit key signature more useful than
| global accidentals, though I don't suppose that's a real big deal.
| These seem to me to be two separate things. Whem converted to
| conventional notation, an explicit key signature is the collection
| of sharps, naturals and
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
What makes them hard to use is that you'd only do
this if you had (a) figured out what the correct mode
of the tune was, having gone right through it to see
what pitches occurred, and (b) decided not to write
it that way.
Jack, that's not true. There
Jack Campin writes:
| Bryan wrote:
| | K:^f^c=g tonic=A mode=mixolydian
| |which seems much clearer to me.
|
| I replied:
| If we were designing abc from scratch, I'd agree. ...
|
| ... If Bryan's verbose alternative were available I'd use it every time.
I keep thinking that this would
What makes them hard to use is that you'd only do
this if you had (a) figured out what the correct mode
of the tune was, having gone right through it to see
what pitches occurred, and (b) decided not to write
it that way.
Jack, that's not true. There are a lot of tunes that
cannot be
Jack Campin writes:
| Consider the D-Ahavoh Rabboh mode, common in Klezmer. [...]
|
| You're missing the point. John was talking about the difference
| between writing such scales as an explicit key signature at the
| start (as is usually done these days for Turkish music) and
| taking some
If you read the 1.6 spec carefully, what it says is that the
things called "global accidentals" are to be drawn before all the
notes in the tune. It says "... for example, K:D =c would write the
key signature as two sharps (key of D) but then mark every c as
natural " It also states
| Does anyone have a requirement for global accidentals as described above?
| Would anyone object if they were dropped and you got the ability to add
| accidentals to the key signature instead ? If the answer to both of these
| is "no", then we should adopt the key signature implementation of
# on the line below the middle one and they'll say
"that's odd" and you'd better hope they don't think it's an accidental.
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From: James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 29 January 2001 16:28
Subject: [abcusers] Global Accident
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