Jack Campin wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, there are a few Hungarian abc series already, but -besides your
transcription above- I have not
seen among them such grace notes-decorated tunes, like those in the
original Hungarian folk song
collections of Bartók en Kodály.
Rgds.
Károly Nickl
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