>> ...An example of something solfa can do that ABC can't: take a waltz >> tune with a trochaic metre and put a chord over beat 2 (see the Jimmy >> Shand Book of Waltzes for examples of this). In ABC there is no way >> to write that, chords have to synchronize with the start of a note. > Just a question: what if you were to notate this: > "D"D2 F|"D"A2 AB|"D"A- "G"A B|"D"A3| > would that have the same effect as you describe above?
On playback, yes. The score you'd generate would be ugly, though, with ties everywhere. There is a way to do it in BarFly (which has a few features not yet in the standard) and maybe Muse (which has adopted some of the same ideas, I haven't tried it). Declare two voices in the header thus: V:1 V:2 merge % puts this voice on the same staff as the first one and write your fragment above like this: V:1 D2F| A2B| A2 B| A3| V:2 "D"x3 |"D"x3 |"D"x"G"x2|"D"x3| "x" represents a rest that isn't printed (useful in most kinds of multi-voice music), so all you will see from voice 2 is the chords. BarFly will align the voices in bar 3 as if there were three equal notes in the bar, with the chord aligned to the second one which you can't see. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
