Jeff Senn wrote: > > I'm a newcomer here. Has the issue of non-12 tone music come up here > before? > I don't see anything in the pending standard about it... > > A lot of middle eastern (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, etc...) music is > based > on a quarter-tone (24 division) system; or in the case of some Turkish > music up to 48 (or even more) divisions of the octave. This is > typically squeezed into > the western system by using half-flats and half-sharps in the key > signature > and as accidentals. > > Also typically the key signature is written with an arbitrary number of > flats/sharps/half-flats/half-sharps in it to represent the > (non-western) mode. > > I recently snagged a copy of John Chambers's jcabc2ps so I could print > some > tunes and modified it for my purposes. The 'quick hack' I used was to > use "^/" and "_/" to represent half-sharps and flats -- thinking that > later > a real fraction can be used to do more-than-24 tone music. e.g. "^3/48" > > -Jas
Hi Jeff, I was considering exactly the same: Just hack the half-sharps and half-flats in there. At the moment I'm trying to compile LilyPond, which has all the microtonal stuff already in there..... but.... I'm glad all the ABC-programs are so easy to compile :-)... Think I like your syntax: using a forward slash to divide the sharps and flats. Best wishes, Pieter To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
