In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I. Oppenheim writes: >| On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: >| >| > Is ~ a roll or a turn? >| >| According to ABC 1.7.6, it's a roll: > >Of course, a lot of people would ask "What's the difference?" ;-) And >a lot of arrogant musicians (like me) would say "Who cares?" and >interpret it as a suggestion to ornament the note, deciding on the >spur of the moment what ornament to play.
A roll can mean quite a different thing to (eg) a dulcimer or auto-harp player and the playback would be totally different. > >| The + notation has since long been deprecated. > >Which does remind me of a suggestion I've long thought of making: Any >Baroque musician is familiar with the convention that a '+' above a >note means "Ornament this note somehow". It's a generic, unspecific >ornament symbol. I personally would like it to mean this in abc. This >really just means that '+' would be added to the list of ornament >symbols, and the default display form is merely a '+' above the note. That's available with "^+" notation. The ".." is for text and the ^ says "it's not a chord symbol but the text which follows, ie a + And I feel that if there is music out there using +..+ for chords then you are confusing the isue. >It should be definable, of course. And a clever abc player program >could pick a random ornament from its repertoire. I take it that's a joke? :-) > >Of course, a really clever player program could do this with any >ornament symbol, preferably looking at the note's length and picking >an ornament that fits within that length. Then the program would be >approaching the level of an arrogant musician. :-) Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
