Dear Benjamin, This is really a remarkable tool. I wish I had had it when I was transcribing the Dominican hymnarium a few years ago, although I devised a few time saving measures of my own.
Are you familiar with the various hymn meters of the Gregorian repetoire? You currently have it set for hymns with the 8.8.8.8 syllable pattern, which is the most common. Other common patterns are 11.11.11.5 (often printed with a quarter bar between the first five syllables and next six syllables of each 11, and a half bar after each 11), 8.7.8.7.8.7, 12.12.12.8 (with an internal division of the 12 into 6.6), 12.12.12.12 (each 12 broken into 5.7), and 7.7.7.7. I don't know much about javascript, but if you were able to add the option of setting in these meters it make the tool quite comprehensive. (If you would like to see more about these meters, you might consult a description I made of them in a college thesis, http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/Studies/smith-medieval_hymnal-2008.pdf, pp. 13 - 18.) Also, if its possible, perhaps you might consider making a version of this script that would allow you to input text and melody in the separate boxes as you have it, but without any syllable counting at all. This would be quite useful, I should think, as a faster way of producing regular scores, by taking out the steps of manually inserting parentheses in between syllables. Yours, bro. Innocent Smith, op On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Benjamin Bloomfield <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrote some javascript earlier today to help me in transcribing Vesper > hymns, and in case it is useful to anyone else, I thought I would post it > here: http://jsgabc.blogspot.com/p/hymn-transcriber.html. Basically, it > lets you put the GABC notation once and the text once, and it will repeat > the GABC for each verse. This should work on Vesper hymns because each > verse has the same number of syllables (as long as there are no allisions). > I'm not sure how I will handle allisions yet. Don't worry about the the > mostly wrong chant that it will show below everything else. > > Also, if it gets the syllables wrong, you should be able to put hyphens in > the original text to show the syllables, although right now you have to also > end the word with a hyphen (e.g., al-le-lu-ia- ). > > Anyway, you had mentioned hymns, so I thought it might be useful. > > Benjamin Bloomfield > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:37, Mark Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have begun typing up the Vesperale Romanum of 1923, and will email you >> the GABC files I have typed so far. >> >> Best wishes, >> Mark. >> >> >> >> >> On 17 Jan 2011, at 00:19, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > I'm preparing some littles-books for the traditional Vespers >> > on Sunday and some major holidays (I and II class) and I would >> > also include the melodies of the antiphons and Hymni of Vespers. >> > It 's a great job. >> > Please, does someone have some GABC files of the antiphonario to give >> > me? >> > >> > thanks! >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Supera i limiti: raddoppia la velocità da 10 a 20 Mega! Risparmia con >> Tutto Incluso: telefono + adsl 20 mega a soli 29,95 € al mese per due >> anni!SCONTO DI 240 EURO! >> http://abbonati.tiscali.it/telefono-adsl/prodotti/tc/tuttoincluso/?WT.mc_id=01fw >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gregorio-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gregorio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >
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