In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > >> 5. No mention of midline >What do you mean?
Sorry, I abandoned a comment and forgot to complete it. I am thinking of the midline field in Clefs. > >> 1. No ability to change clef in non-voiced music, the clef change is >> only in the voicing section. This means you can't write music for viola >> or cello. > >Please explain me what non-voiced music is, and how we >should deal with it. I should have said non-Multiple Voiced Music: ie that which does not have any V: fields. All your clef definitions are in the Multiple Voice music section, so how to write the clef for viola music is not clear. > >> Following the example in in "K: Key" that "K:Dphr ^f" would give a *key >> sig* of 2 flats and 1 sharp, this imples that the previously-quoted >> example "K:D =c" would have me put a key sig of F#, C# and then Cnat. >> Which if course is nonsense. > >Nope. > >There are to supported syntaxes: >[A] K:<tonic><mode> <accidentals> >[B] K:<tonic> <accidentals> > >Syntax A will _modify_ the key signature of the mode >given, rather than simply append accidentals to it. >Example: > >K:Dmaj =c % will give F# Cnat > >Syntax B, which only contains the name of the tonic, >and does not imply a mode, will allow you to spell out >a key signature in full: > >K:D ^f =c % same meaning as above > >Note that in syntax B the tonic may be basically >ignored by the parser; the tonic is only there to make >the notation comprehensible to other users. "Strange" key sigs such as the above (while clear in intent) are very non-standard. Are they really necessary? I've never played from one and would actually find it very difficult to play _b ^f Anyway: have you abandoned the "global accidentals" idea? I thought it very good actually. In fact some Bach is written that way - he writes a key sig of 1 flat and "manually" flattens every E and ends on a G minor chord! 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
