Anyone going to Sidmouth this year?
I'm playing with Momentum for English social dance, including the
Playford Ball on Wednesday night. I'd be glad to meet any ABCusers
who wander by.
Shameless plug: www.MomentumBand.co.uk
Thomas Bending
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Bruce Olson wrote:
I had assumed that use of key-mode specification in ABC came in
only through a bit of misguided fuzzy logic. Figuring out how to
describe something completely in the minimum number of independent
parameters isn't always straightforward.
As others have pointed out, the
Tonic is important because it says where the tune is going.
Mode is important because it says how the tune is going to get there.
If a tune is in an open key (no white notes on the harpsichord) then in the
major (or Ionian) mode the obvious harmony is the three chord trick C,
G7 and F. The
Laurie wrote:
...
To summarise it so you can see it at a glance, here it is as
a table. The
final sequence is the first two chords in reverse order e.g. G7=C.
K:Cmaj CG7 F
K:Ddor Dm E (G, Bm)
K:Ephr EFmaj7 G7 Am
K:Gmix GF (C)
K:Aaeo Am C
Jack Campin wrote -
As others have pointed out, the description of a tune purely by key
signature isn't complete unless you are using equal temperament; you
don't know the exact pitches of the notes unless you know the mode.
As I have pointed out, the mode is in the tune and may vary as it goes
Bruce Olsen wrote:
I must admit that I didn't use it, because I don't think that a
statistical approach is needed here. [I did actually program that
data collection into my ABC player program, but didn't have the
patience to run through a large number of tunes in a variety of
modes and collect
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:09:00 -0400 Bruce Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mode distribution: Highest 31 modes (of 179) of the 6601 tunes
stressed coded in file Comcode.TXT on my website.
then follows a table
This table is wonderful! Thank you. I've been wanting something like this.
It give some
Robert Bley-Vroman writes:
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| Bruce wrote, in passing, that if abc eliminates key+mode in K:,
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| we can cut out ambiguity in
| notation and put it into interpretation where it belongs.
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| It seems to me that as long as abc uses any kind of key signature (with
| sharps or flats), the chief
Robert Bley-Vroman wrote -
Will major-scale tune with some flatted sevenths be transcribed with the
flatted
seventh as part of the key signature, or with the flatted sevenths
indicated as accidentals within the body of the tune?
Whichever you like as long as you specify all the notes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Bley-Vroman wrote -
Will major-scale tune with some flatted sevenths be transcribed with the
flatted
seventh as part of the key signature, or with the flatted sevenths
indicated as accidentals within the body of the tune?
Whichever you like as long as
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