> I'm transcribing some Persian (Iranian) musics, and I'm currently
> working on some additional fonts for abcm2ps for the quarter tones
> (called koron for quarter-tone flat and sori for quarter-tone
> sharp). Is there a way to make some abc application play
> quarter-tones (and/or other subdivision of tone as well) ?
BarFly can play the following tune right if you use its "Edit Intonations"
feature to globally adjust the pitch of the F sharp. Unfortunately it
doesn't give you any way to name the intonation you define in ABC, or save
it anywhere except in the application preferences, or generate any staff
notation to indicate what you've done. You are also stuck with twelve
notes to the octave represented as seven diatonic pitches and five
accidentals. The semantics (intonation editing) is nearly okay, but the
syntax is crap. (Might be better in more complex tunes to use macros -
even if you had to expand them to 12-tone ABC for now, you'd have an
encoding of what you really meant).
X:1
T:A Yowe Came Ta Wir Door Yarmin
S:J. Irvine
B:Da Mirrie Dancers, 3rd ed, Shetland Folk Society, 1989
Z:(staff notation) Tom Anderson 1970
Z:(ABC) Jack Campin 2002
M:C
L:1/8
N:the F sharp is only a quartertone sharp
K:A Minor
E2 (DE) CD vE2|vG<G E2 vG<G E2|(vTE2 DE) CD E2|({d}cA) BG vA2-A2:|
uB|:vc2 (dc) B2 G2| c<c Ac B<B G2| (ucd) e^f g2 d2| cA BG A2-A2:|
I've heard Cathal McConnell play it on the flute. Easy enough to bend
the pitch with that, but I can't recall what he did there. I'll ask
him about it when I see him next. Not sure I've ever heard a fiddler
do it.
> I've seen such a debate in the past, but unfortunately
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ don't have all the archives for this,
Those thieving scumbags have no business having ANY of my contributions
on this topic.
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