Barry Say says:
| Under what circumstances would you want a word or symbol in the lyrics
| to align with a rest?
|
| I have seen this in the case where words are spoken are shouted or
| indications such as (clap) (stamp). Sophisticates may well use
| percussion notation rather than rests in
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:11:33PM +, John Chambers wrote:
In general, it seems that rests should almost always be treated as
notes. The only way they're different is that a rest doesn't have a
pitch.
And is tricky to play staccato ?
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Richard Robinson
The whole plan hinged upon
On 4 Oct 2003, John Chambers wrote:
I'd guess that this is fairly common. It's likely that some abc tools
that handle w: lines now do align syllables with rests, but nobody
has ever noticed.
If this is true, then making this the official behavior would hardly
break anything. And those
A beta veraion of the ABassC viewer/player for PocketPC is available at
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It is still in the developement stage but already includes a collection of
101 harmonized J-S Bach chorales with figured bass. Figuring out how
to make the program available took me as
