Re: [abcusers] Help!
You did send this to Laurie personally too, didn't you? Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laurie Griffiths wrote: Someone please help me. When I went off sailing I sent something to the list machine to tell it to stop sending me mail. It was off the form SET abcusers NOMAIL and it had to be sent, not to the list itself, but to the machine that runs the list. Well it worked! So I need now to send (I think) SET abcusers MAIL to the same place. Alas, I find I have no trace of it. WHERE DO I SEND IT? I tried aiming my browser at http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html like it said on the end of every message and clicking on the subscribe button, but that didn't work. I presume it happily notes that I am subscribed and is continuing to send me NOMAIL! DO NOT reply to the list - I won't see it!! reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I realise and accept that I might get 600 replies) Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] the Dead ABC Scrolls
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-) There seems an obvious musical interpretation of the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas (from the Nag Hammadi collection): They said to Him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the Kingdom?" Jesus said to them, Original Modern version == "When you make the two one, You put your right arm in, and when you make the inside like the outside your right arm out, and the outside like the inside, Your right arm in, and the above like the below, and you shake it all about and when you make the male and the female one and the same, You do the hokey cokey and your turn about so that the male not be male nor the female female;That's what it's all about. [Jesus left a few verses out here] and when you fashion eyes You put your whole self in, in the place of an eye, your whole self out, and a hand in place of a hand,Your whole self in, and a foot in place of a foot,and you shake it all about and a likeness in place of a likeness; You do the hokey cokey and your turn about then will you enter [the Kingdom]." That's what it's all about. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] WWW music notation formats (was: Why XML is a bad idea...)
"Frank" == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank John Chambers wrote: Meanwhile, closer to the previous topic: There are a number of music formats used by the commercial packages, such as Finale. Are there very many Finale files online? Frank Not really. The only really important collection of Finale Frank files is Oliver's: Frank http://chemistry.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi.htm and all the Frank pieces there are also available in PDF format now. Even Frank the Finale Public Domain Library: Frank ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/pub/finale/ tends to include PDFs GIFs Frank and Midis created by Finale rather than straight Finale Frank files. There are a few ETF files here and there, though. There are some at http://www.freenote.org, which I know I've looked at in the past, but my browser can't seem to find the site now. The chief developer of lilypond threw together a etf to lilypond converter one Sunday afternoon. I tried it on some etf's Frank sent me and it still needed a lot of work. But the parser would be a start (it's in python) if someone wanted to look at etf to ABC. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.laymusic.org : Putting live music back in the living room. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] the Dead ABC Scrolls
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-) There seems an obvious musical interpretation of the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas (from the Nag Hammadi collection): The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth would seem to offer more musical cues: "Lord, grant us a wisdom from your power that reaches us, so that we may describe to ourselves the vision of the eighth and the ninth. We have already advanced to the seventh, since we are pious and walk in your law." "What is the way to sing a hymn through it?" (silence) "Have you become such that you cannot be spoken to?" "I am silent, my father. I want to sing a hymn to you while I am silent." "Then sing it, for I am Mind." What he had finished praising, he shouted, "Father Trismegistus! What shall I say? We have received this light. And I myself see this same vision in you. And I see the eighth, and the souls that are in it, and the angels singing a hymn to the ninth and its powers. And I see him who has the power of them all, creating those that are in the spirit." "It is advantageous from now on, that we keep silence in a reverent posture. Do not speak about the vision from now on. It is proper to sing a hymn to the father until the day to quit (the) body." "What you sing, my father, I too want to sing." "I am singing a hymn within myself. While you rest yourself, be active in praise. For you have found what you seek." "But is it proper, my father, that I praise because I am filled in my heart?" "What is proper is your praise that you will sing to God, so that it might be written in this imperishable book." "I will offer up the praise in my heart, as I pray to the end of the universe and the beginning of the beginning, to the object of man's quest, the immortal discovery, the begetter of light and truth, the sower of reason, the love of immortal life. No hidden word will be able to speak about you, Lord. Therefore, my mind wants to sing a hymn to you daily. I am the instrument of your spirit; Mind is your plectrum. And your counsel plucks me. I see myself! I have received power from you. For your love has reached us." "Right, my son." "Grace! After these things, I give thanks by singing a hymn to you. For I have received life from you, when you made me wise. I praise you. I call your name that is hidden within me: a o ee o eee ooo iii o o uu oo o o oo. You are the one who exists with the spirit. I sing a hymn to you reverently." - It's clearly in a pentatonic scale, since it uses only the five vowels. Clearly it must use the seventh, octave and ninth, since those get mentioned prominently in the text. Add the tonic and fifth (since it's hard to write any tune without those) and we're in business. How about this: o = C u = G e = Bb a = c i = d X:1 T: The Name of God C: Hermes Trismegistus M:none K: C c C _B2 C B3 d3 C4 C5 C5 G6 C2 C9 C9 C2 | Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] WWW music notation formats (was: Why XML is a bad idea...)
At 09:46 PM 06-01-01 UTC, John Chambers wrote: So far, ABC seems to be the only emailable music notation. Not true. Eric Foxley's notation used for the Nottingham Music Database is available at: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef/ef/music/doc/music.doc.html I've been using it as an email notation for several years, and in some works better than abc. Because it's less dependent on white space for special meanings it tends to get less affected by line wrap problems. I like it a lot, and I think that combining the best features of it with the best features of ABC would lead to a wonderfully useful language. Bob To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] WWW music notation formats (was: Why XML is a bad idea...)
Laura Conrad wrote: The chief developer of lilypond threw together a etf to lilypond converter one Sunday afternoon. I tried it on some etf's Frank sent me and it still needed a lot of work. But the parser would be a start (it's in python) if someone wanted to look at etf to ABC. More info about the etf format at: http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/notationformats_e.html#ETF Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
