Thanks to everybody who responded to my Susato posting - and especially
to Phil who sent me a really usfeul error reprort privately.
I'm sorry I haven't been able to participate much myself in the
discussion(s) I triggered, but it seems you've managed quite nicely
without me, so I guess it didn't matter much.
Oh well, here's my summary:
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1. Editorial accidentals.
Simon Wascher (I think) wrote:
> I usually use "#"A or "b"A to show editorial accidentals.
Phil Taylor replied:
> Yes. Perhaps "^#" would be better.
I'd go for Phil's suggestion if it wasn't for two details, the "^xxx"
and "_xxx" text string syntaxes aren't stanrdaized enough yet and
there's no way to get playback of such accidentals.
John Chamner's (_) and (^) suggestion is a very good idea too, btw, but
I don~'t think there is any abc application that can actually understand this.
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2. Barlines
Contrary to my normal policy, I will keep the barlines and add a note
saying "no barlines in the original".
There is one very unusual reason for this. Most people know Susato from
F. J. Giesbert's 1936 transcription of Danserye - or from any of the
hundreds of rip-offs of Giesbert's edition.
Unfortunately Giesbert didn't know nearly as much as he liked to think
about renaissance music. So he transcribed some of the pieces with
absolutely ridiculous barring, such as:
M:C|
L:1/4
c-|c/B/c/d/ ec|cc/d/ e/c/d/e/|fd2f|...
instead of:
M:3/5
L:1/4
c>B cd|ecc|c/d/e/c/d/e/|fd2|...
(from the beginning of "Bergeret sans roch")
Unfortuantely, despite his lack of knowledge about the subject, Giesbert
was long considered an authority in the early music community, so his
editions remained unchallenged for too long, leaving the best pieces of
Danserye virtually unplayable.
So I've decided to add some more sensible barring to my edition to try
to counteract this long-lasting and unfortunate misunderstanding.
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3. Separated or intermingled voice lines.
This is a rather messy problem we ought to discuss at length here at
abcusers. It's not an issue specially related to Susato, though.
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4. P: field
Simon Wascher wrote:
> Why do'nt you use the P:field within the tune body for the "Reprise"
> text?
...
> To my personal understanding I always wonder why someone created a field
> that organizes the playing order and does not allow the usual part and
> playing order terms to be used within.
John Chambers replied:
> As far as I can tell, Chris never said that such things aren't
> allowed.
Both Simon and John are right, of course. But I don't think many ABC
applications supports things like
P: Reprise
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5. Line terminators
RJP wrote:
> This file has <cr> terminated lines...
I'm afraid that problem is a bit beyond me. As far as I know, SaintEdit
is the only Macintosh text processor that allows you to specify line
terminators, and I don't fancy opening each and every Musica Viva
document in SaintEdit before uploading.
Any suggestions for solving this?
Frank Nordberg
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