On 17 Oct 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: > Barry Say wrote: > > > You need to place a metre change in all of the voices (if that's what > you want) since you can have voices in different metres. (It's not > common, but it does happen, and not only in avant-garde music - Bach > did it occasionally.) > I appreciate precisely what you are saying, but it seems to me we are complicating matters. Meter changes will generally be global and in that case we can write the input for all voices for the first part of the tune which is in the initial meter. Follow this by an M: field Then continue with the input for all voices for the section in the new meter. If we need to change the meter for one voice then this can be done with an inline field
> Yes, that's perfectly acceptable, but you still need to put fields in > all of the voices to which they apply. There's nowhere in the tune > body where you can place a single field and have it apply to all > voices. > I suggest an exactly similar argument for Key changes. I include a section from my suggested modifications to the ABC- standard at http://www.nspipes.co.uk/barry/abc2propos2.html ------------------------------------------------- Multivoice notation includes all situations where multiple input lines are to be aligned in the output. The simplest cases are perhaps one voice and aligned words or symbols or chords. The fields which can be involved are: V:<label> (voice); w: (aligned words); s: (symbol lines); and c: (chords). K:specification %start of tune. <optional fields> %these should be unnecessary at his point. Multivoice block <optional fields> Multivoice block . . Multivoice block Blank line The Multivoice block consists of the fields mentioned above. and might look like. V:1 cAB2 |cAAA |c3B|G2+fermata+Gz ::e4|\ w: que-sto~il vi-so ond' io ri-man-go~uc-ci-so. Deh, w: ran-do fi-so, tut-to re-stai con-qui-so. V:2 AAG2 |AFFF |A3F|=E2+fermata+Ez::c4| V:3 (ag/f/e2)|A_ddd|A3B|c2+fermata+cz ::A4| A section of one voice is notated . The equivalent section of all other voices are then appended along with symbol lines, guitar chords and inline words. All voices can be multiline. The voice, chord and symbol lines do not have an included space when joined. Inline fields e.g.[M:4/4], [K:G] apply only to the voice in which they occur, but fields between blocks have a global effect across all the voices. The first voice in the block controls line-continuation and line- breaking for the whole score so the \ at the end of the V:1 field merely indicates that this is not a staff break. ------------------------------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
