[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Starling wrote -
:
: I'm afraid that you have come in part way through this discussion. The
: proposal is that each individual note should have its specified duration
: which left the question open as to what defined the overall length of the
: chord, i.e. time
Laurie wrote:
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.
Starling wrote:
Almost. I had one question. What is a melody note? I have always
known melodies as defined by context, and subject to much
interpretation, rather than being defined by a specific type of
notation. Two different people can call a section of music melody or
accompaniment, and
Laurie:
I've been transcribing choruses of The Messiah.
Phil:
If you're doing something that complicated you have to be using multiple
voices anyway...to represent the two hands unambiguously.
Well Muse has a serious problem in using multiple voices for a piano part.
(I would guess Bryan's
Laurie wrote:
Well Muse has a serious problem in using multiple voices for a piano part.
(I would guess Bryan's Noteworthy to ABC converter would have the same
problem). The problem is how do you decide what counts as a voice? This
is from near the end of His Yoke is easy and his Burthen is
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Phil Taylor wrote:
Starling wrote:
Almost. I had one question. What is a melody note? I have always
known melodies as defined by context, and subject to much
interpretation, rather than being defined by a specific type of
notation. Two different people can call a
Starling wrote -
| ... I had one question. What is a melody note? I have always
| known melodies as defined by context, and subject to much
| interpretation, rather than being defined by a specific type of
| notation. Two different people can call a section of music melody or
| accompaniment,
Starling wrote -
... I had one question. What is a melody note? I have always
known melodies as defined by context, and subject to much
interpretation, rather than being defined by a specific type of
notation. Two different people can call a section of music melody or
accompaniment, and
Is it legal abc to have a rest in a chord?
For instance:
X:0
T:Example
L:1/8
M:4/2
K:G
[zG8 B8 d8]gfe dcBA G8
Failing that we really do need the number on the end like
X:1
T:Example
L:1/8
M:4/2
K:G
[G8 B8 d8]1gfe dcBA G8
Note that one might need single note chords with a length.
This leads
