On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:19, Jack Campin wrote:
> That slur is a design bug in abc2ps. No other program makes the same
> blunder, and there are fixed versions of abc2ps available.
Hmmm
> What's a "ghostnote", anyway?
Well first I should say that I'm a jazz-musician. A ghostnote is a note that
is more felt than heard. Some people find this hard to handle and would argue
that either the note is there and you write it or it's not and you don't. But
it's common practice to write the note you feel in brackets. This all comes
down to transcribing jazz-solos being half transcribing and half analysis -
"what is the soloist's intention here". For instance you notate laidback
phrases as if they were being played right on and maybe put "laid back" over
the passage.
> When you say crossed noteheads, do you
> mean the unpitched notes used to indicate claps, stamps and the like?
Yeah. Often the note is of uncertain pitch (low notes on a trumpet for
instance), so you write crossed notehead normally "where the note should be".
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