Nickl Karoly worte:
> Hungarian folk songs use grace notes after a main note very often, but
> you will find them also in Bach's concertos.
You can hear these Hungarian gracenotes on any of Marta Sebestyen's
recordings or in print in the transcriptions by Bartok and Kodaly.
Representing Bartok's material in ABC would require substantial extensions
(different lengths of gracenote, glissandi) as well as (the present topic)
implementing already-standard features correctly.
BarFly manages to play and print the following as a recognizable tune,
with one glitch and ignoring the different lengths of gracenote. This
was presumably transcribed off a field recording - Bartok would have
wanted a midi-to-ABC tool if he was working today.
X:1
T:A virágok vetélkedése
B:Bartók/Kodály, Transylvanian Hungarian Folksongs
N:The 8-bit characters are deliberate. I think it's just plain
N:offensive to insist that speakers of languages other than English
N:should go through hoops learning TeX character codes so they can
N:use their own alphabet, and the TeX crap needs to be deep-sixed
N:as soon as possible.
Z:Jack Campin 2001 (from a paper copy I made 20 years ago)
M:4/4
%M:(4/4) % what they actually wrote, meaning it isn't strict
L:1/4
Q:1/4=86
%Q:Lento, poco rubato 1/4=84-88 % what they actually wrote
N:"I" is BarFly's inverted-fermata sign, "H" is a fermata
N:The very long lines are to align the beats right in the source
N:Things I couldn't get into the ABC:
N: 1. the B gracenote in bar 1 and G gracenote in bar 4 have crossed flags
N: 2. I *think* the fermata and inverted fermata are meant, but the printed
N: signs don't have dots.
K:G mixolydian
(D/| G) B ({B}d2-{(3ded}) | (d{c/B/}) (c{B/A/})
(B2{c/B/A/}.B/) z/ z|
({B/c/}d2{c/B}) c (B{c/B/}{A/B/})| (c{B/A/}) (B{G}) HA2
Hz|
A B ({A/B/}c2{d/c/B/}) | ({B}d2{c/B}) ({A/}B/)
(HG3/{A/B/}) z|
({A/B/}c{B/A/}) (B{A/G}) (IA2{G}) |({G/A/}B{A/G/}) JA HG2
|]
Is there any more Hungarian stuff like this in ABC already?
For examples of gracenotes after the melody note in Scottish music, see
Nathaniel Gow's "Vocal Melodies of Scotland". Nowhere near as many as
in Hungarian music but a lot of his transcriptions have a few of them.
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