I have performed magic on stage in the past. There was of course always a
mundane behind-the-scenes explanation of what appeared to happen, there was
some effort needed to implement the tricks, some people to whom credit was
due, etc.
It's definitely magic.
Laurie
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Laurie writes:
| JC's tune finder is magic.
|
| For instance I was at the last M27 Megabop which Rufus Returns played at.
| They played one number I really liked but I was unable to learn it there and
| then (no Mozart, I). I went to Chipenham Folk Festival last weekend and
| someone played it in
JC's tune finder is magic.
For instance I was at the last M27 Megabop which Rufus Returns played at.
They played one number I really liked but I was unable to learn it there and
then (no Mozart, I). I went to Chipenham Folk Festival last weekend and
someone played it in the English Session in th
IMHO I think abc is an excellent, efficient means of "transporting" tunes. That seems
like what you were all after in the beginning. And it is a refreshing change from the
multi-megabyte, bloated files for other things in the "wintel" world!
Phil Taylor wrote:
> Ulf wrote:
>
> >My conclusion:
Ulf wrote:
>My conclusion:
>
>abc is good for people who (1) are very experienced in the use of a computer,
>(2) who can do the necessary intellectual abstractions in their mind and type
>in the tune at the same time (3) who use sheet music - both reading and
>writing, and who write a lot of musi
> > When touch-typing abc you don't spend much time looking at the screen,
> > so the equivalent is:
> >
> > *Look at the score, see that the next note is A and it's 1/8.
> > *Hit the Shift and A keys without taking your eyes off the score.
> >
> > No competition.
> >
> > Of course if you are ente
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Frank Nordberg wrote:
> Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
> >
> > So installing finale on an UNIX/LINUX/MS/what-have-you server is no
> > problem?
>
> No sane person would ever want to run Finale as a part of a web server
> setup.
See! I'm perfectly sane (so the voices tell me...) and
Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
>
> So installing finale on an UNIX/LINUX/MS/what-have-you server is no
> problem?
No sane person would ever want to run Finale as a part of a web server
setup. I was referring to the Finale Viewer plug-in (and to the even
more tacky Scorch plug-in Sibelius is trying to
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Frank Nordberg wrote:
> Hmmm, I feel a bit bad about spoiling the party, but:
Oh, just as we were padding each other so gently on the back, you naughty
you :-)
> > * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
> > really possible using Finale
>
>
Frank Nordberg wrote:
| John Chambers wrote:
| > One of my favorite ways to test music software is to attempt to enter
| > some of the better-known Balkan songs. For instance, Jovano, Jovanke,
| > which wants a meter of 7/8 and a key signature of one sharp and two
| > flats (^f_B_e). It's a si
Hmmm, I feel a bit bad about spoiling the party, but:
Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
>
lots of god reasons for using abc, but one or two dubious ones too, I'm afraid:
> * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
> really possible using Finale
That appears not to be t
Atte: "speed? I think I'm faster in abc than I used to be in encore, but I'm
not sure..."
Phil: "When using a graphical music editor to type music in from a score,
this is what you spend most time doing:
*Look at the score, see that the next note is A and it's 1/8.
etc"
OUCH! Get Muse!
OK - I
On 4 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:
> > "Atte" == Atte Andre Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Atte> So instead of:
>
> Atte> CDEF | GABc | c2G2 | c2C2 | c2c2 |
>
> Atte> you do:
>
> Atte> Cdef | gabc | c2g2 | c2c,2 | c'2c2 |
>
> Now a data entry mechanism that took your sec
Laura Conrad wrote
> Atte> Or better (IMHO): an interface that works the way lily
> Atte> works. That is the note is asumed to be the closed to the
> Atte> previous one.
>
> I disagree -- that makes the notes too context dependant, so you can't
> just cut and paste a snippet into an
> "Atte" == Atte Andre Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Atte> On 4 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:
Atte>
>> In ABC, I think I'm faster when I'm typing in the octave that
>> doesn't use the capital letters, and I'm certainly faster when I don't
>> have to enter the commas
On 4 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:
> In ABC, I think I'm faster when I'm typing in the octave that
> doesn't use the capital letters, and I'm certainly faster when I don't
> have to enter the commas or the apostrophes.
>
> So is anyone working on an ABC application that allows this?
Or better (
Atte Andre Jensen wrote
> *formatting is seperated from the music itself
*anything else* is separated from the music information itself.
I would say, this is the most important thing. All other resons
are based on this one in some way.
The information is now a kind of stream-format which open
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:30:37 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor)
>
> Atte wrote:
>
> >* speed? I think I'm faster in abc than I used to be in encore, but I'm
> >not sure...
>
> When using a graphical music editor to type music in from a score, this
> is what you spend most time do
> "Phil" == Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Phil> The only faster way to get music into a computer is to play it on
Phil> a midi keyboard, and even then you are usually going to have to
Phil> do a lot of post entry editing.
The people I know who claim to be really fast in
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
> As you prob know I'm one extremely happy abc user. Yesterday I showed a
> friend of mine my songbook, and he liked it, but had to ask "If abc is so
> cool, how come I haven't heard of it?" Anyways I tried to give me a couple
> of reasons to get into
Atte wrote:
>* speed? I think I'm faster in abc than I used to be in encore, but I'm
>not sure...
When using a graphical music editor to type music in from a score, this
is what you spend most time doing:
*Look at the score, see that the next note is A and it's 1/8.
*Look back at the screen to
On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:37:51 UTC John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
| > * free
| > * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
| > really possible using Finale
| > * runs on any platform
| > * small file size
| >
> Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
>> Others??
- volume of material available on the web
- human-playable directly from the abc
--
Steve Mansfield
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the uk.music.folk newsgroup FAQ, and other goodies
| Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
| > * free
| > * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
| > really possible using Finale
| > * runs on any platform
| > * small file size
| > * works on my Palm (and I typed quite a few songs during public
| > transport
Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
> * free
> * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
> really possible using Finale
> * runs on any platform
> * small file size
> * works on my Palm (and I typed quite a few songs during public
> transportation)
> * spee
As you prob know I'm one extremely happy abc user. Yesterday I showed a
friend of mine my songbook, and he liked it, but had to ask "If abc is so
cool, how come I haven't heard of it?" Anyways I tried to give me a couple
of reasons to get into abc, but I prob missed some good ones, so please
make
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