[abcusers] Re: keys & modes (was: tune finder)

2002-07-14 Thread DGellert
I use Barfly, and really like its intonation options. Just intonation is particularly well-suited to the bulk of the stuff out there in abc (european-based traditional and early music,diatonic, doesn't go modulating all over the place), but it has to be based on the tonic note you are actu

Re: [abcusers] The (illegal) sounds of silence

2002-07-14 Thread John Chambers
| I'm incredibly mortified. I apologise for my ignorance. Are all three | movements the same length? Do they add up to 4'33 or is that the length of | each? In case anyone is interested, there's an excellent history of this piece at http://www.azstarnet.com/~solo/4min33se.htm I wasn't aw

Re: [abcusers] Re: keys & modes (was: tune finder)

2002-07-14 Thread Bruce Olson
Henrik Norbeck wrote: > > Eric Forgeot wrote: > > I think that the transcriber wanted to help people like me reading > > "D key ? oh, so there is 2 sharps in it". > > But then, why not write K:Edorian % 2 sharps > instead of K:D % Edorian > > > If I read EDorian I have to find my table with all

Re: [abcusers] a request to talented programmers

2002-07-14 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:22:02 +0200 (CEST), Guido Gonzato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hello, Hello Guido, >Windows users have this little gem called NoteWorthy Player >(http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/player/), a brilliant MIDI player that >also shows the music notation. AFAIK, such a tool is n

Re: [abcusers] Re: keys & modes (was: tune finder)

2002-07-14 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
I have to agree with Henrik. My experience is that many musicians (including some quite good ones who really ought to know better) do one of two things. They either say an Edor tune is in D (which is silly as it spends it's time flirting briefly with D and then homing back to E just as a piece i

[abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-14 Thread Bryancreer
John Chambers wrote - >For example, recently I saw a line like: K:D % EDorian It could be that the author was using software that only allowed the tonic as shorthand for the key signature and didn't support modes (such programmes have been known to exist). He should be praised for adding the

[abcusers] Re: keys & modes (was: tune finder)

2002-07-14 Thread Henrik Norbeck
Eric Forgeot wrote: > I think that the transcriber wanted to help people like me reading > "D key ? oh, so there is 2 sharps in it". But then, why not write K:Edorian % 2 sharps instead of K:D % Edorian > If I read EDorian I have to find my table with all the modes, find > the right one, and the

Re: [abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-14 Thread Henrik Norbeck
Eric Forgeot wrote: > Someone at http://www.terra.es/personal8/niltoni/ made a copy of > many tunes found everywhere, and if most of them had the original > url somewhere in the tune, it would help to find the rest again. Why not tell him directly? His e-mail is on the web page: [EMAIL PROTECTE