Anselm Lignau writes:
>Yes, but the whole point of Jack's original proposal was for people to
>be able to define the meanings of these terms themselves, in a manner
>appropriate to the music they were working with. The suggestion to
>hard-code a selection of `tempo terms' (a bad one, IMHO) came from
>elsewhere, quite a bit later.
>
I interpreted those as suggestions for possible default values which
could be easily overridden by the user.
Some programs (abcmus for sure, and judging by other comments in
this thread, Barfly, probably others too) use the R: and M: fields to
determine the tempo (and, more, a stress program) which can be modified by
the user as desired. It's a great feature. I think of the translation of
"allegro" into beats per minute as an extension of this.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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