On Thu 29 Nov 2001 at 10:40AM -0000, Laurie Griffiths wrote: > Not so. > > This is back to the question of "does the notation tell the program what to > print or does it describe the music". The answer is that it describes the > music and software can figure out how to express that in any other medium > (for instance sound waves, MIDI codes or tadpoles on 5 bar gates). I > *suggest* that a good thing to print for this case would be > <note shape denoting old beat> = <note shape denoting new beat>
If you want to do this sort of thing, my suggestion (based on personal taste rather than historical precedent) would be to use an arrow rather than an equals sign in the printed output. Using an equals sign to indicate a change only really makes sense if you are a programmer (but not a Pascal programmer). I can't recall actually having seen this notation used. Morris tunes frequently have "slows", where a passage is played at half speed and this is normally notated by using notes of double the length. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
