Jack Campin writes:
I'd prefer something
like this - based on the Scottish version, in A, but still for two
flutes:
X:2
T:Mrs McLeod of Raasay
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A Mixolydian, etc . . .
Is this a good excuse to post our favorite versions of McLeod's?
Here's one I like, from the
As soon as all abc tunes are rewritten to conform to a standard.
Until then, I'm just going by what is in the tunes, and what the other abc software
does.
Someday all the software will do more-or-less the same thing, and then there will be a
'de-facto' standard, which will could easily be
After I posted this, I got a request off-list for the source of this
arrangement, and I have since discovered that it was done by
Composer/Arranger John Ciaglia, who has done lots of Flute, Piccolo and
Fife stuff, mostly for Fife and Drum Corps in the New England area. So
know you know, too.
I've managed to get separate voices using abcm2ps (note: I'm not sure
if this is standard abc, but abc2midi doesn't like it). Here's what
I do, and it comes out quite nice IMHO:
X:9
T:McLeod's Reel
C:Arr. by John Ciaglia
M:2/4
L:1/16
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U:M=!tenuto!
Doesn't work in BarFly
Jack Campin wrote:
U:M=!tenuto!
Doesn't work in BarFly - that redefinition of M isn't permitted as
it doesn't know what !tenuto! is (and hopefully never will do).
Sorry about that. My only intention with the given abc is that it would
be used in abcm2ps, since that's what I use. I
Jack Campin wrote:
U:M=!tenuto!
Doesn't work in BarFly - that redefinition of M isn't permitted as
it doesn't know what !tenuto! is (and hopefully never will do).
What's the problem? !tenuto! conforms well to the proposed
standard. Actually, BarFly should simply ignore anything between
!!
Henrik Norbeck wrote:
Jack Campin wrote:
U:M=!tenuto!
Doesn't work in BarFly - that redefinition of M isn't permitted as
it doesn't know what !tenuto! is (and hopefully never will do).
What's the problem? !tenuto! conforms well to the proposed
standard. Actually, BarFly should simply ignore
Henrik Norbeck writes:
| What's the problem? !tenuto! conforms well to the proposed
| standard. Actually, BarFly should simply ignore anything between
| !! that it does not understand, because this makes the abc
| standard esay to extend. Sometime in the future someone might
| come up with the
