Wil Macaulay wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > John Chambers says -
> >
> > >And now Bruce is part of the cabal that's inflicting its
> > >own ideas about ABC on the poor, oppressed user community.
> >
> > Maybe that's what he was trying to distance himself from.
> >
> > >So now he will be subject to
> > >all the usual criticism for hist dictatorial infliction of useful
> > >software on users who weren't consulted about it beforehand.
> >
> > Well he has co-opted the J: command. I hope nobody had any plans for that.
> > On the other hand, he has introduced a sharps and flats key signature so
> > presumably "We who like it the way it is" will be down on him like a ton of
> > bricks.
> >
>
> Far from it. Just don't take away my K:tonic mode from me - I need it.
>
> >
K:tonic mode? How do you determine if it's correct?
'Sources of Irish Traditional Music', 1998, gives as many as 3
viable scoring modes for some tunes. One is last note as key, and
2 are circular modes, but ABC lets you use 7, most of which are
wrong.
The problem I have with the K:specification is that it only
determines the number of sharps or flats on the key signature,
and it isn't required to have any relationship to the real
scoring mode and a viable keynote. There is always a keynote for
any of the 7 'greek' scoring modes that will give the correct
number of sharps or flats. (Seen at a glance from the
#/b-key-mode graph SFMODE.GIF on my website. With the first 15
notes on the graph I can get anything from 7 sharps to 7 flats on
the key signature with the mode as locrian.) I can score all
Western style tunes (conventional ordering of sharps and flats)
as locrian, which is fine with ABC, which only cares about the
sharps or flats, but that will never give me a viable keynote.
Bruce Olson
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ballads at my website (no advs-spam, etc)- www.erols.com/olsonw
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