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| John Chambers a skrivas:
| > Jean-Francois Moine skribis:
| > |
| > | Let's go further. Someone in the ABC-land will soon write:
| > |
| > | K:C ^e_f
| > |
| > | How do you feel "cdefg"?
| >
| > Too late; this has already happened. ;-) I play several tunes in this
| > scale. Well, actually, it also has _B. Among klezmer, Balkan and
| > Middle-eastern musicians it's a familiar scale.
|
| Really? With 'e' (sharp) higher than 'f' (flat)? Please, let me know
| where I can find such scores (I do like funny sounds)..
Oops; I misread it as K:C_E^F, which is (to me) a fairly normal key
signature. I've also heard a scale that could be written as K:C_E_F,
with both the 3rd and 4th lowered and an augmented 2nd between the
4th and 5th of the scale. Some people would consider this to be a bit
weird, since it involves writing F to get E. It's sorta reasonable,
though, since E is being used to represent _E. Both this scale and
K:C_D_E_F (usual also with _B) are heard in Arabic music.
Of course, one situation where even K:C^E_F could come in handy is in
transcribing some of the musical spoofs that appear from time to
time. Thus, we've seen some impressive abc transcriptions of Cage's
4'33". Some have a number of changes of key, meter, and tempo,
complex repeats, and so on, all carefully calculated to come out to
four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. I've seen some printed
"music" that would be interesting to write out in abc, with really
strange key signatures, chords such as [^D_E__F] or spread across
five octaves, clef changes in the middle of a group of beamed notes,
melodies that skip across three or more staves, annotations like
ffffppppp and so on. I've sometimes thought that it's a pity that abc
can't do all of the things that printed staff notation can.
Some years ago I saw a work which included a descending viola line
with a diminuendo, which ended on a low Bb marked "pensando". That's
about how a violist would have to play it, of course.
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