John Chambers wrote: > ...The meaning of the letters is quite obvious. The rhythic symbols > are a bit puzzling. What do all those punctuation characters really > mean?
> My first guess is that the colon is a beat separator, '-' is a tie, > and dot and comma mean "short". But I could be misinterpreting them. I think they're subdivisions of the bar. | is the bar line, : is the half-way point, a full stop divides half bars into two; - is used to lengthen the note, commas act like "/" in ABC. So this: m,f|s,m.d,m : s,m.d,m|s .d :d .- m,f|s,m.d,m : s,m.d,m|f .r :r .- | would be the first four bars of Soldier's Joy. > ...the English scale names (which by some coincidence all start > with different letters). Not a coincidence, I assume. Do re mi fa so la ti do is the basic scale. Och, I'm tired, Good night. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
