Here are a few thoughts about the gabc header fields that occur at the start of the gabc file. They arose partly from thinking about the idea of a repository, and partly from trying to generate titling with gregoriotex from the gabc header fields.
If a repository is to be useful, the header fields should be consistently used. (http://home.gna.org/gregorio/gabc/ should probably have a cross-reference to the http://home.gna.org/gregorio/gregorioxml/details page.) Extra fields would be useful (in my opinion) for: - occasion: e.g. `Dominica II Adventus' (2nd Sunday of Advent) for Populus Sion. (The Cantus database http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/descript.html has such a field.) - short upper text above lettrine: e.g. `Ad Magnif.' or `3 Ant.' or `Hymn'. The gregorioxml page suggests that the a[n]notation field should be used for this -- but then how do you enter the lower text? (I tried having two anotation fields, but that gave a segfault.) - short lower text above lettrine: usually a mode indication, with ending (differentia) for antiphons e.g. "I g" or "IV A*" or `1' or `1.D2'. The `mode' field cannot be used, because it must be a plain number (the source calls atoi on it), with no scope for specifying the ending (or even using roman numerals). - license/licence: as Elie has already suggested; this would be useful to indicate the copyright on the gabc transcription. -- David Stone _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
