On Wed 21 Nov 2001 at 01:41PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: > At 03:40 PM 11-21-2001 +0000, James Allwright you wrote: > > >In an attempt to wrap up this thread, would the following proposal > >for a new field meet everyone's requirements ? > > > >Field Name: q:playing style > >Header: Yes > >Tune Body: No > > Would this make it impossible to transcribe music which is supposed to be > played "Placidly" in the main, except for a passage which is supposed to be > played "Excitedly"?
Use "_Excitedly" in the middle of the tune and then go back with "_Placidly". > > >Description: Contains a written non-numerical description of the > > tune's tempo or "mood". > > > >Examples: > > > >q:Allegro > >q:Lento > > Could the proposal be fleshed out more? How does the new q: field interact > with the Q: field? It doesn't really, except that in the absence of a Q: field, a player program might try to interpret the q: field to choose the tempo to use. > Any recommendations as to how playback or printout > programs should treat q: and Q: fields? > A playback program looks for a Q: field and ignores the q: field most of the time (unless it is a top-of-the-range abc program which knows how to how to read Italian). A printout program would probably print whichever field is present and both if you have both unless you have some special option to suppress one or the other. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
