On Fri, 14 May 2004, David Webber wrote: > From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Actually, Gardner Read is the one who's mistaken here. ;-) > Musicians > > can and do play chords on several instruments with notes > terminating
> Gardner and Bernard are quite correct, and with good reason. > > If one has, for example, a minim and a crotchet attached to the same > stem, who is to say where the following note should be played - a > crotchet later or a minim later? > I agree. I guess a program like abc2midi would have serious problems interpreting such a situation. I think both musicians and software developers should learn how to notate music properly. There seems to be much misunderstanding about the difference between chords and polyphony. I'm a user of MUP. There was a similar discussion some time ago about this subject in the mup-users mailing list. Just like in abc in mup the notes in a chord have to be of the same length, or else be in different voice. If a user wants to break such a rule a notation software could implement the manual placement of noteheads, stems and other objects. In a graphically orientated package like Score Perfect Pro (great program and cheaper than Finale or Sibelius) this is easily done. It's also easy to do other illegal things like putting 5 quarter notes in 4/4 bar. In music notation languages like mup and abc this is much more difficult, or close to impossible. -- Martin Tarenskeen To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
