[abcusers] New abcusers tune archive

2000-09-18 Thread Frank Nordberg
I have been playing around with WebCatalogue for a few days and come up with a new design for the abcusers tune archive. It's not nearly finished yet, but if you like you can have a look at it at http://www.musicaviva.com/abctest/index.html Any comments bug reports etc. are appreciated One new

Re: [abcusers] Software for extracting chords

2000-09-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
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[abcusers] Online notation program

2000-09-25 Thread Frank Nordberg
This was posted at WHquestion a some days ago: SkyCMe wants to know: "Is there a Web Site out there that I can use to write out music on staff's and then print it out for free?" I suppose the only realistic way to get anything resembling that wouild be ABC. Any suggestions

Re: [abcusers] Change of e-mail address to davidale6@hotmail.com

2000-09-27 Thread Frank Nordberg
Explorer, browse the Web and much more MSN Explorer even offers an exciting new look for using the Web and makes it easy to find and play music online. Oh, so they finally got around to ripping off ICQ then? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] Musicator2abc-conversion

2000-09-28 Thread Frank Nordberg
reason for that strange ending. The superfluous naturals towards the end isn't her fault, though. I had to add them because of a playback bug in BarFly. Frank Nordberg --- X:433 T:Polka fra Saltdal C:trad., arr. Kjersti Nilsen (1992) O:Norway A:Saltdal V:1 Program 1 110 %Fiddle V:2 Program 2

Re: [abcusers] ABC not only for geeks

2000-09-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
... This raises an interesting question. How are dynamics implemented in ABC nowadays? I know there have been a couple of discussions about it here, but so far it seems to be no results. The "^..." and "_..." syntaxes are supported on jut a very basic level by BarFly and not at all by abc2

Re: [abcusers] Musicator2abc-conversion

2000-09-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
nothing about Jo Bråttkorp) Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Change of e-mail address todavidale6@hotmail.com

2000-09-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
nds at all after this stunt? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error

2000-10-01 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: abc2ps -h says: Alloc options: -maxs n set maximal number of symbols (default 800) -maxv n set maximal number of voices (default 4) so saying: abc2ps -maxs 2000 should do the trick. That did the job. Thanks a lot Laura :* (And a

Re: [abcusers] Musicator2abc-conversion

2000-10-01 Thread Frank Nordberg
ed version of Polka fra Saltdal. Just a pleasure, but don't post it anywhere yet. I haven' got permission from the arranger to use it. She's an extremely nice and kind girl, so I'm fairly sure she'll say it's OK, but she hasn't replied to my last e mail yet. God helg! Frank Nordberg To

Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error

2000-10-01 Thread Frank Nordberg
sicaviva.com/abc/abcusers/1999.abc http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcusers/2000.abc Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error

2000-10-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
, and that isn't nearly as sophisticated as that. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] O'Neill's 1001

2000-10-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at:

Re: [abcusers] MacMIDI2abc

2000-10-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: The program MacMIDI2abc which I mentioned previously is available from: http://www.dr-razz.com/midi2abc/ It's a very nice Macintosh port of James' midi2abc. Phil Taylor Seems really good. There are still a few bugs (feature that doesn't work), as well as a few

Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001

2000-10-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
"Atchley, John" wrote: Wow! Are you wearing bifocals yet?! No, but I think I should. Bert Van Vreckem wrote: Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free time? Just don't tell my boss, OK? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, I told my ABC bot

Re: [abcusers] MacMIDI2abc

2000-10-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
and Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] O'Neill errors

2000-10-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
ith the O'Neill tunes is that many of them doesn't seem to have a clearly defined tonal centre at all. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] O'Neill errors

2000-10-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
John Henckel wrote: At 01:36 PM 10/7/2000 +0200, you wrote: To make matters worse, *no* ABC program seems to support nested slurs. Thinks like |(GA({c}B) AGF)| occurs fequently in 1001, and that isn't possible in ABC at all. abcm2ps seems to support it just fine. It is

Re: [abcusers] Quicktim 5 preview silences BarFly

2000-10-12 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: Any BarFly users thinking of installing the newest version of Quicktime should be aware that the Quicktime Musical Instruments which come with it are seriously buggy... Thanks Phil. I guess I'll stick to QuickTime 4 for a while then. Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe,

[abcusers] Quintuplets

2000-10-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
that three independently developed ABC applications can have exactly the same bug. So, is there any tradition anywhere for the "five notes in the place of two" definition of quintuplets? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc2ps and early ornament signs

2000-10-20 Thread Frank Nordberg
Jack Campin wrote: What is a problem is that the Mac version of abc2mtex does absolutely nothing on my system I didn't know there was a Mac version of abc2mtex. Where can I find it? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] free Finale

2000-10-25 Thread Frank Nordberg
) internet file format are completely alien to both companies :( Maybe we need an abc2finale translator to take advantage of it? Well, it should be doable. Finale uses two different file format, and one of them is text, not binary. Frank Nordberg http://www.musica.com To subscribe/unsubscribe

Re: [abcusers] free Finale

2000-10-26 Thread Frank Nordberg
Mark Vandenbroeck wrote: Hi, Is there any documentation on the Finale format (text or binary). I might give this abc2finale a try. The Finale text format is called ETF (Enigma Transportable File). It was an early - and rather half hearted - attempt to create a common file format for

Re: [abcusers] free Finale

2000-10-26 Thread Frank Nordberg
. Yes, but in music notation it's usually impossible to draw a clear line between information content and formatting. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Gonna be off-list for a while

2000-10-26 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: I have had an ambition to cross an ocean under sail for many years. I am now going to attempt to do it. Wow Have fun Laurie! Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] free Finale

2000-10-27 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: "Frank" == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank I don't know what you mean with "stable", Laura. Finale has Frank been around for more than ten years now and has remained Frank more or less the industial standard for mos

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-20 Thread Frank Nordberg
are already polyphonic. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html I think Jean-Francois meant it the other way round. That it ought to be possible to play the same voice through two or more midi channels simultaneously. Frank Nordberg

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread Frank Nordberg
Richard Robinson wrote: ... There is something like that with my stuff, http://www,leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ A typo there, Richard: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ ^ Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser

Re: [abcusers] Blank music sheets

2000-12-28 Thread Frank Nordberg
Just for the sake of completeness: There is a Windows program that is supposed to be able to print blank music paper at: http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/graphpapeng.htm The output I've seen looks really tacky, but I thought I'd mention it. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point

Re: [abcusers] Finding music files

2001-01-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
is a couple of months or so, and it's getting better all the time. Coincidentally, that is more or less the same as most general www search engines can claim. Frank NOrdberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
and treating it as ABC. Actually I think it is a program out there that does that. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draftfor V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
any good midi search engines out there, so why bother making another one? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
(although we do exchange URLs) In case of e mail accidents: All lines in the list should start with http:// (of course ;) Frank Nordberg http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/ http://www.taberna.com.ar/ http://adactio.com/session/ http://home.t-online.de/home/pheld/noten.htm http://diato.org

Re: [abcusers] WWW music notation formats (was: Why XML is a bad idea...)

2001-01-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
format. Do any of them have online communities of users? All of them have in one way or another. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Help!

2001-01-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
You did send this to Laurie personally too, didn't you? Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laurie Griffiths wrote: Someone please help me. When I went off sailing I sent something to the list machine to tell it to stop sending me mail. It was off the

Re: [abcusers] WWW music notation formats (was: Why XML is a bad idea...)

2001-01-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
info about the etf format at: http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/notationformats_e.html#ETF Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Finding music files

2001-01-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
ves. True, but deciding what te music actually was, would be much harder. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Csardas

2001-01-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
Frank Nordberg wrote: [snip] V:2 BB2B (G2G2)|BGB2 BGB2|cd ec BGB2|z A z E z F z F|GD2B, G,4|] To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html What's going on here? I added a lot of blank lines after the ABC when I sent this e mail, and the abcusers

[abcusers] Trailing blank lines (was: Csardas)

2001-01-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
, can anyone explain what happens - and more important where in the chain it happens? John's posting seems to work fine, but mine is always missing the blank lines. Hmmm Frank Nordberg --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] V:

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Nordberg
5th 2000. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Creative BarFly Bug

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Nordberg
s. V:2 G F E/D/ E F3 z F G A G/A/ F F EF G F E/D/ E F4|] w:Tu-os sub--di-tos ser-va car-nis_ fra-gi-lis_ mo-le po--si-tos. It's certainly a bug, but one that might be useful. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Importing abc2ps output into Illustrator

2001-02-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
isn't nearly as standardized as it should be. Have you tried using ordinary ps instead of eps? Both abc2ps and Illustrator is certainly able to handle that format as well. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] gracenotes

2001-02-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
James Allwright wrote: On Thu 08 Feb 2001 at 12:35PM +0100, Frank Nordberg wrote: (Note: There shouldn't be any grace notes in this tune, of course. I just happened to have it handy for testing...) The results: BarFlydisplays and plays back nicely. abc2midi plays back

Re: [abcusers] Re: developers/user

2001-02-10 Thread Frank Nordberg
at viola stunt was originally introduced by Hoffnung in a parody of modern music. I don't know if Schickele used it in some P. D. Q. composition, but if he did, he stole it from Hoffnung. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Announcement: An ABC standards committee has been formed

2001-02-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: Chris Walshaw wrote: Chris Mea culpa. I agree - I too am more interested in Chris music (and my work) Chris than defining the standard and both of those have been Chris going rather well recently. John Atchley has volunteered

Re: [abcusers] Modal three chord trick

2001-02-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
rning!!!) Apparently this was the source of quite a lot of the problems Willie Nelson had getting accepted in Nashville. Mr. Nelson is definitely *not* a fan of the three chord trick, and his rather sophisticated chord progressions didn't fit very well inot the system the Nashville studio musicians w

Re: [abcusers] Modal three chord trick

2001-02-12 Thread Frank Nordberg
to recognise them. The exact syntax for chord notation isn't really covered in the abc specs at all. As far as I know, abc2midi is the only application that attempts to do anything with the chords (apart from writing them down, of course) at all, and that program has a rather chord repertoire

Re: [abcusers] Modal three chord trick

2001-02-14 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: ... Am and then that would be how it shall be. (For non-native English speakers, please note that I, a native British English speaker am not at all sure whether "shall" is really the tense I want but I mean that the law is laid down, the tablets of stone carved

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
erm originally meant that the fourth was held over from the previous chord, but people tend to have a far more relaxed attitude towards chord voicing nowadays. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
g the bulk of my music transcription work with some other non-abc program package. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-15 Thread Frank Nordberg
rrange pre-war swing like this. +There isn't a single typo in this chord progression +There isn't a single superfluous chord there. +In case anybody wants to try it out, the first twelve bars are the theme, the next 24 are the clarinet solo - which I played almost exactly like Woody Herman did. Frank Nordberg --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
alternatives. And then, Frank Nordberg wrote: Laurie Griffiths wrote: [...] for instance minmaj is crazy Do you mean the name is crazy or that nobody would ever use such a chord? I can agree to the former, but a minor chord with a major 7th added isn't unusual. The name is crazy

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: Frank Nordberg wants the modifier list to include... No, I don't. I want the entire modifier list replaced with a set of fairly simple rules defining the syntax of the modifier. If I understand Mike Whitaker's proposal (which I'm not absolutely sure I do) correctly

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
Just two short apologizes - quite malapropos everything. I've struggled with some annoying time delays during this entire discussion. My own postings has sometimes taken ages to appear, and I've received other peoples posting in the wrong order (frequently getting somebody's reply before

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: "Laurie" == Laurie Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...Is this an appropriate moment to suggest throwing in roman-numeral and figured-bass notations as well? Laurie Yes, it's the right moment, but I vote against it. I would have said, no, it's not

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-17 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: (I'm still wading through version 2 of the Rocky grammar). I don't want to exclude Jazz guitarists from using ABC but I also feel that I don't want ABC cluttered up with very complicated descriptions of chords. Oh well, time for the big showdown then :-| Chris

Re: [abcusers] abc server setup?

2001-02-22 Thread Frank Nordberg
, that is they were treated exactly as I've told Netscape to treat ABC files. Frank Nordberg --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc server setup?

2001-02-22 Thread Frank Nordberg
nd Mac/AOL. That ought to cover the most common combinations, but there are still lots of holes, and any help filling them would be very much appreciated. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc server setup?

2001-02-23 Thread Frank Nordberg
Alan Ng wrote: Hello again, I appreciate the reasons why John C. and Frank Nordberg have compiled browser customization tips for committed abc users, ... It wasn't much of an effort. Basically there was this discussion here at abcusers and wer decided to just post it. ... OK, now

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-24 Thread Frank Nordberg
debates about the exact syntax for this ;-) but the general principles shouldn't be too controvertial, should it? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-28 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: I don't know whether C7(9)+13 is gibberish or meaningful or, if meaningful, what it might mean. I'd say C7 with an added augmented 13 - and throw in the ninth too if you like) In other words: C-G-E-Bb-A# with an optional D (Of course you have to be really concerned

[abcusers] Fiddle forum

2001-02-28 Thread Frank Nordberg
Just got this e mail and thought somebody at abcusers might be interested. Frank Nordberg Kyle Aaron wrote: Hello, Friends! My name is Kyle Aaron. I am a Commercial Music Major at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. I just finished my new web site, "The Fiddle

Re: [abcusers] Hi

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
e/key sig discussion was rather important, and we really ought to finnish it. But recently even mentioning the subject has been impossible. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] The abc committee (Was: Hi)

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
mething coherent out of it afterwards. Just like Bryan, I'm not convinced it'll actually work. But we have to give it a try. There doesn't seem to be any alternatives. Frank Nordberg --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
ly states that global accidentals is *not* a part of the key signature. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
seems to require a space between the key signature and the acidentals (e.g. D ^e_f rather than D^e_f), but keeping it might still be a bit too confusing. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] More modes (was: Modes and key signatures)

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
is: C-D-E-F#-G-A-Bb-c Or, to be more precise (for the benefit of any mathematicians who might subscribe to the list): n - n9/8 - n5/4 - n11/8 - n3/2 - n13/8 - n7/4 - n2 (the observant reader might notice that the system actually calls for an extra note, but that one isn't generally used) Frank

Re: [abcusers] More modes (was: Modes and key signatures)

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
/Museum/4915/SALLOW.HTM in case anybody is interested. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] C: trad (was Modes and key signatures)

2001-03-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
uot; in this context. A popular Swedish (of course) songbook actually insists on using "trad. arr." as the composer ;) Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
that have transient modulations from minor into the relative hejaz. Interesting. Could you name some specific examples? Frank Nordberg --- X:1 T:La primavera T:Op. 8 n. 1 C:Antonio Vivaldi Z:Transcribed by Frank Nordberg - http://www.musicaviva.com M:C L:1/8 K:E V:1 %Violino principale P:1

Re: [abcusers] The abc committee

2001-03-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
, the youth turned exitedly to his fellow and said "now is the time to speak!" whereupon the old hand calmy replied "now is the time to shut up". I'll say no more. Frank Richard Robinson wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Nordberg said

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-09 Thread Frank Nordberg
ames apply to different scales in ancient Greece music and modern modality. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] do these chords have a standard meaning?

2001-03-12 Thread Frank Nordberg
arp". Is "EmG" a pair of alternatives? More probably a typo for Em/G, although a G chord does sound quite nice there. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
he program is as simple as it can possibly be, so I'll recommend the program to all Macintosh users. As far as I know, there are no similar programs for other platforms :( but maybe somebody else know of something? Frank Nordberg --- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browse

Re: [abcusers] New abc music file released

2001-03-18 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laurie Griffiths wrote: I presume "$" meant U.S. dollars. What currency is "#"? Was that a misprint for "$" or something else? I suppose it means you can choose any currency you like ;) Italian lire or Russian rubels would be my favorites. Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your

Re: [abcusers] New abc music file released

2001-03-18 Thread Frank Nordberg
time all the melodies have been released in abc format. It is! And you beat me to it by just a week or two... ;-) Congratulations!!! Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
programs (including music publishing programs) can output postscript directly, so if you use Finale, Igor, lilypond, MusTex or Sibelius, you don't have to bother with the printer driver. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Composer/Lyricist Distinction

2001-03-21 Thread Frank Nordberg
g the data. Of course, all the uppercase letters are in use for field flags, so I don't know what would be best -- maybe lowercase c: ? Is this something that seems valuable to anyone else? Definitely yes. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullo

Re: [abcusers] ABC applications

2001-03-25 Thread Frank Nordberg
w arranger BarFly BMW2ABC Harmony Assistant indexabc jaabc2ps m2g Macabc2chord macmidi2abc Melody Assistant midi2abc Muse MusicEase NMD2ABC playabc PlayQABC Runabc.tcl SET6 Skink sw2abc TablEdit tclabc tkabc Virtual Composer Yaps Yaps (Macintosh version) Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe,

[abcusers] Proof reading problem

2001-03-26 Thread Frank Nordberg
C:Niel Gow R:Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 K:D D2dF2A|E2cC2E|D2dF2A|DFA gfe|D2dF2A|E2cC2E| agf gfe|[1dAFD2z:|[2dAFD2|:g|fdg faf|ece gfe| fdg fag|fda bg|fdg faf|ece gfe|agf gfe|dAFD2:| Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] ABC applications

2001-03-27 Thread Frank Nordberg
Bert Van Vreckem wrote: Frank Nordberg wrote: Does anybody know what's happened to abc2whis, btw? I can't find it anywhere on the web. Google found it at ftp://ftp.numachi.com/pub/abc2whis-0.1.tar.gz I found that one, but unfortunately the server doesn't seem to accept guest ftp

[abcusers] Macmidi2abc

2001-03-27 Thread Frank Nordberg
know anything about it? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] PDF

2001-03-28 Thread Frank Nordberg
a newcomer to the group. Where do I find this list of useful ABC software that Frank compiled? http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcapps/index.tpl Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
that it doesn't give you PDF output. Sorry about that folks. Oh well, PrintToPDF does exactly the same job as the HP driver in any case. And switching printer driver is almost as easy as switching between paper and PDF print with the same driver. PrintToPDF is $20 shareware, though. Frank Nordberg

[abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-03-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
the archive. Even so the total number of tunes are now 206. I'll especially recommend everybody to have a look at Jack Campin's postings. He has made it a really nice habit to post some wonderful music nobody else has ever heard about. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] ABC applications

2001-03-31 Thread Frank Nordberg
growing list. Will do. Can I add the perl scripts at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/sh/ as well? Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] small fragments?

2001-04-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
lty/artdes/Global/Fiddle/Tunes/index.html http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a7425519/ http://www.uni-jena.de/~osb/tradswed/ http://www.webcom.com/~liam/gaelsong/song.html http://www.yagelski.com/sbox/index.html http://www1.roke.co.uk/SIB/repertoire.html http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~larryc/ Frank Nor

Re: [abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-04-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
o/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html Robert Bley-Vroman http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/esl/bley-vroman/contra/ Sigfrid Lundberghttp://www.lub.lu.se/~siglun/ Laurie Griffithshttp://www.musements.co.uk/muse Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com/index.html Jack Campin http://www.purr.demon.

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-05 Thread Frank Nordberg
y used by electronic instruments. That's one of the main reason (perhaps *the* main reason) why a musical piece played by a computer sounds "unnatural" and "synthetic". Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Past discussions digests

2001-04-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
)? The abcusers archive is at: http://iona.tullochgorm.com/abcusers_archive/ Don't tell anybody outside the list. THe archive hasn't been updated for quite a while though. Is it possible to receive only the digest? Yes, as far as I know, but I'm not the right person to answer that question. Frank

Re: [abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-04-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
Simon Wascher wrote: Hello, Frank Nordberg wrote: (...) This reminds me, btw. I forgot to list the contributors in my last message:(...) Any corrections and additions to the URL list? Yes indeed. this URL is still working but the provider company was bought and so they changed all

Re: [abcusers] how about 372 key/mode combos, then?

2001-04-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
ng to transfer Groven's system to the grand piano, employing three pianos linked by a computer. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Past discussions digests

2001-04-06 Thread Frank Nordberg
Matt wrote: Frank Nordberg wrote: The abcusers archive is at: http://iona.tullochgorm.com/abcusers_archive/ Thanks, Frank, but is it working? The header on that page seems to refer to a Gaelic language list, and when I submit a search, I get redirected to a login

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc for MAC

2001-04-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
after each and every bar in ABC. --- Macabc2chord Freeware Extracts the chord symbols from an ABC file. Requires MacPerl to run. --- Melody Assistant Shareware Useless crap. --- Melody Assistant Shareware Extended version of the useless crap. --- Frank Nordberg To subscribe

Re: [abcusers] PDA abc?

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
/ but that link seems to be broken. You should also have a look at Brenda Holloway's "Playback Machine": http://www.mbay.net/~brendah/articles/ Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] PDA abc?

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: There are certainly text editors for the pilot... Just one little thing I forgot to say: If you're planning to write or edit ABC on a PDA, make sure you get one with a keyboard. You don't want to do that kind of work writing on a screen. Frank Nordberg To subscribe

Re: [abcusers] BarFly 1d29 available

2001-04-26 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: There's a new version of BarFly up for grabs. Great :) Get it from: http://rbu01.ed-rbu.mrc.ac.uk/barflystuff/barflypage.html (and in due course from the mirrors) The Musica Viva mirror is updated: http://www.musicaviva.com/software/index.tpl Frank Nordberg

Re: [abcusers] www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/, www.celticmusic.co.nz

2001-06-01 Thread Frank Nordberg
comes up with 96 hits, so I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to track him down. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/, www.celticmusic.co.nz

2001-06-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
a home page at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~markf/ but that's only an empty directory at the moment. A Google search for Mark Fitzsimons comes up with 96 hits, so I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to track him down. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] %%MIDI program/channel questions

2001-06-04 Thread Frank Nordberg
confused about this ;-) There's a list of all the general midi programs at http://www.musicaviva.com/encyclopedia/g/general-midi.html Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

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