Frank Nordberg wrote:
I posted this table at abcusers a year or so ago:
Pythagorean Equal
c260.74 261.6
cb 278.43 277.2
d# 274.69 277.2
d293.33 293.7
db 313.24 311.1
e# 309.03 311.1
e330 329.6
The irony (unless it involves money changing hands) is that people would
have a problem with a book, yet, you can take those same tunes, available
online in mid or abc format, and produce the same sheet music with several
programs.
"Richard L Walker"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA
Richard L Walker writes:
| The irony (unless it involves money changing hands) is that people would
| have a problem with a book, yet, you can take those same tunes, available
| online in mid or abc format, and produce the same sheet music with several
| programs.
This is in part because the
Brad writes:
| Thanks for the comments, all. Fear not, I have not violated any
| laws since
| this was only an idea --- the points raised by this little thread
| has
| dampened my enthusiasm for such a project. In fact, my feeling
| is that even posting
| tunes like Ashokan Farewell to the net
Frank Nordberg writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
| While you're at it, you might add my abc2ps clone to the growing
| list.
|
| Will do. Can I add the perl scripts at
| http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/sh/
| as well?
Sure. Hmmm ... That means that maybe I should look around there and
I was messing about on my Mac last night under OS X, and I thought I'd
try the latest version of abc2ps to see if it would build under the
developer
tools. Lo and behold, the 1.4 version has been extensively reworked,
has
a proper make file, built first time and now can produce .au (audio)
Is "well-tempered" and "equal-tempered" the same thing? I don't think
so. I was under the impression that equal-spaced half steps produced
bad-sounding music. The key of E is not supposed to sound exactly like the
key of C (except one third higher). That's why the composer dictates the
"John" == John Henckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Is "well-tempered" and "equal-tempered" the same thing?
No.
John I don't think so. I was under the impression that
John equal-spaced half steps produced bad-sounding music.
No, most "modern" music assumes an equal-tempered
John Henckel wrote:
Is "well-tempered" and "equal-tempered" the same thing? I don't think
so. I was under the impression that equal-spaced half steps produced
bad-sounding music. The key of E is not supposed to sound exactly like the
key of C (except one third higher). That's why the
Laura Conrad wrote:
"John" == John Henckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Is "well-tempered" and "equal-tempered" the same thing?
No.
John I don't think so. I was under the impression that
John equal-spaced half steps produced bad-sounding music.
No, most "modern"
| Confooozin. and all gray areas. I liked the "money changing hands" idea.
It's not necessarily all that grey. And "money changing hands" is
irrelevant to copyright. Otherwise, if I had a grudge against you, I
could make copies of your stuff and give them out for free, thus
ending
Phil Taylor wrote:
Frank Nordberg wrote:
I posted this table at abcusers a year or so ago:
Pythagorean Equal
c260.74 261.6
cb 278.43 277.2
d# 274.69 277.2
d293.33 293.7
db 313.24 311.1
e# 309.03
Bruce Olson wrote:
Also it came as a surprise to me to find the Basics sound command gives
square waves at the speaker (ABC2WIN and my ABZ player).
That's because it's simply a speaker connected to the output of a logic
element (in the original PCs, it was a flip-flop), so all you can do is
John Henckel wrote:
Is "well-tempered" and "equal-tempered" the same thing? I don't think
so. I was under the impression that equal-spaced half steps produced
bad-sounding music. The key of E is not supposed to sound exactly like the
key of C (except one third higher). That's why the
Bruce Olsen wrote:
Also it came as a surprise to me to find the Basics sound command gives
square waves at the speaker (ABC2WIN and my ABZ player). Norbeck's
AbcMus I haven't examined much, but my trials on A=440 lead to an audio
signal out as a three part sawtooth for each cycle. The ear
In fact, the even tempered scale hasn't completely taken over. The
uilleann pipes are usually tuned against the drones, and I imagine that is
also true of the highland pipes and other instruments like the vielle
which have drones. This means
that when voicing the instrument, makers
"Phil" == Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phil Yes and no. the expression "well-tempered" comes from the
Phil title of Bach's two volumes of preludes and fugues. The
Phil well tempered klavier certainly referred to a keyboard
Phil instrument tuned in equal temperament,
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