Marion,
I'll make one last try at what I was saying. I was not speaking of
eliminating tabulature or staff notation - or any other way of passing music
from one person to another. I'll have to be more boring than usual and
mention that I spent a long time in data communication - and still have an
Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So my suggestion was only that there be a uniform
notation for transmission that all music software vendors would agree to so
they could accept any other software's transmission.
I agree that this would be highly desirable, but, as with all standards, there
In a message dated 2/18/2005 2:03:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Just to set the record straight, my tab format was designed to
be e-mailable. This was in the days when there was no internet
(just a limited arpanet) and mail was sent from computer to
computer via
Yes, I agree that Wayne's format is very easy to use and perfect for tabbing
lute music. Also very portable -- I haven't thought of using a PDA! Tab in
general doesn't show when certain voices should start/stop and for that you
need to have an understanding of historical counterpoint and the
On a related note, I've had the idea (for a while now) to get the tab (Wayne's
format) for an entire period or composer and run it through a parser which
would look for patterns in the music. I'd be looking for things like the most
common phrases (length could be variable) in Dowland's music. I've
XML would be much more efficient for that and many other purposes
because of all the parsing tools that are being developed for that format,
and because it is a structured format that is meant to do precisely that
sort of manipulation. Wayne's format is meant to produce nice prints
with his
It's certainly an interesting idea. Programs have already been
written that will write a piece of music in the style of certain
composers. I've always thought that if you took out that little 6
note ornamental figure out of Bakfark fantasias there would be
precious little left. :-)
On a
Can anyone help translate from old Spanish the paragraph on the dedillo,
on http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/~gls/images/facsimiles/Mudarra/Preface_2.jpg
Thanks,
Alain
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Dr. Marion Ceruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Tablature and staff notations record different things, tablature records
finger
positions; staff notation records pitch. One CAN translate either into the
other,
but, SHOULD one?
+++Yes. This is why I like TablEdit so much. You input tab and
Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Speaking specifically of music the ideal would be a protocol that could
transmit without regard to notation. The absolute notes themselves.
would it? I wonder.
Consider natural language for a moment. The several writing systems in use
modernly and
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