ANewman wrote: >Here's another riddle for the group: >V:1 >L:1/4 >V:2 >L:1/8 >V:1 > >What's the value of 'L' now? > >Likewise for key, meter and tempo.
Each voice is a completely separate tune, so they can have different default note lengths (common), metres (rarely) and even keys. Not sure about tempo though, since all the voices have to play together. >Along the lines of the last question, there is key vs. transposition. For >>instance, the key may be in Eb and the trumpet part would be in 'F'. >Should >the ABC program figure out that the different keys for different >voices means >their transposition. What I do here is to write the part in the key in which the written music is to appear, but include a transpose directive in the header, or in the K: field if it's single voice abc to specify how it's to be played. V:2 transpose = -2 or V:2 t=-2 (for short) or is it -14? it's specified in semitones anyway. >Actually that doesn't really work because you don't know whether to xpose >up >or down. We really need a transposition part of the voice header, >such as >'xpose=_E,' to indicate that this is transposed to eb, and then >down the >octave. If you do it in semitones it's pretty self-explanatory. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
