At 04:48 AM 7/23/2003, Jack Campin wrote:
Just for laughs, I tried to see if I could do parallel solfa lines in BarFly using the "w:" construct, with the solfa symbols being treated as "words".
The problem with it was that in solfa, the ":", "." and "," characters are used as barlines and beat separators; they align between notes. So I tried to align them to "y" non-printing spaces.
I couldn't get it to work right, but I cannot figure out if it should have worked at all, if I needed a different syntax to do it than the one I was using, or if the failure was a bug. Can it be done? (I did figure out that I needed to escape the "-" signs, used in solfa to add duration to the previous note).
I haven't figured out what on earth to use for a lower-octave sign: solfa uses a sort of kerned subscripted apostrophe, easily distinguishable from the fat comma used for marking quarter- or eighth-beats. There's nothing in the standard Mac character set that looks like it so I can't even do high-bit cheating.
I have recently come by a small book "Songs of the Gael", by A. P. Breathnach, 1922. This book appears to use precisely the notation system described by Jack. I am about ready to transcribe the music to a familiar (to me) form of notation. I have searched the Internet for some reference on this system of notation, but have thus far had no luck in finding *anything* that defines usage of the various characters and marks. The letter characters obviously represent the solfege notes, but the meaning of the other characters is not so clear. Can you, Jack, or anyone, point me to a reference, either printed or online, that defines this notation system? I would appreciate any help, as some published guideline would sure help shorten the learning curve.
Regards, Don
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