Frank wrote: >In a way the present definition of the Q: field represents a >perversion of everything music is about. Notated music (standard >notation or abc or whatever) exists mainly to aid the performing >musician, but the Q: field as it is today seems to assume that >the music is to be played by a computer. > >My idea is to have ABC present the tempo in a way that is as >useful as possible to the live musician, and *then* add some >kind of mechanisms for helping the computer interpret it as well >as it can.
Isn't it just the other way around? We cannot deny that it is often convenient (if not artistically valuable) to have a computer play music from abc notation. That's one of the reasons abc was invented. The computer must have a way to know how fast to play, and the Q: field is the answer. Nothing in the 1.6 specs addresses the question of how to communicate tempo to a live musician, which we seem to agree is a different problem. The answer to this will necessarily be an extension not present in 1.6. BTW, I don't suppose we'll ever find a consensus as to how to represent the metronome markings in Beethoven which were almost certainly derived from a faulty mechanism and are routinely ignored in modern performance. ______ /\/\/\/\ <______> | | | | | David Barnert <______> | | | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <______> | | | | | Albany, N.Y. <______> \/\/\/\/ Ventilator Concertina Bellows Bellows (Vocation) (Avocation) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
