> That depends. Do you just want the information to be present > somewhere in the headers? Or would you like software to be able to > use the information sensibly?
both if possible. I want pple to be able to find again this tune if they had only the tune somewhere else, or to come back later to find new tunes in the tunebooks I'm making. But on the other side, if it can enable software to be more "efficient", I'll try to follow the rules. I may use this F: field in the future Someone at http://www.terra.es/personal8/niltoni/ made a copy of many tunes found everywhere, and if most of them had the original url somewhere in the tune, it would help to find the rest again. > K:D % EDorian > This made it clear that the transcriber knew the correct key and > mode, and was intentionally giving incorrect information. Presumably I think that the transcriber wanted to help people like me reading "D key ? oh, so there is 2 sharps in it". If I read EDorian I have to find my table with all the modes, find the right one, and then the number of accidentals etc. ( but it's true with abc software displaying the notes, you have all that immediately... ) I don't think the transcriber was a sort of musical terrorist whose aim was to puzzle softwares related to mode. > this was to defeat people using software to look for things by key. Isn't the problem for mode instead ? We have the right key, but the right mode is after the % The problem with the Key/Mode issue is that the ionian mode corresponds to the key, so if I intentionally decide to write the key and don't care about mode, there is always someone saying : "hey, you're wrong, it's not in the ionian mode, it's in dorian/phrygian etc." In the C key there is a specific notation for the aeolian, we had a small "m" to have "Am", for mixolydian we add Mix to have GMix etc. Why isn't there any specific notation for the ionian ? With CMaj for example, we would be sure it's in the ionian mode, and there whould be no confusion with the C key. > When people do things like this, there's a real temptation to throw > up your hands, and go play some tunes to cool off. I thought it was a good idea to use 2 K: fields to write both the mode and the key, but this solution of K:D % EDorian is maybe better. Will you forgive me if I use it in the future ? :) If it generalizes, it will be maybe easier for a cleaver script to understand it, and better than to give a bad result for a bad choosen mode in the K: field. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
