On 3/30/2015 1:54 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:
On 30 Mar 2015, at 00:49, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote:
It would be worth to bring the collection of music symbols up to a more
comprehensive set in one go, rather than to do it piecemeal.
There is a similar issue to that of the math symbols, namely, one mig
> On 31 Mar 2015, at 00:48, Johnny Farraj wrote:
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> That's a good point. I was thinking in the confines of equal temperament.
The basis for music from Middle Ages, from West down to Persia at least, is the
Pythagorean tuning. Then in Western art music, CPP (Common Practise Period),
one adds
> On 31 Mar 2015, at 00:06, Doug Ewell wrote:
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> Johnny Farraj wrote:
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>> The Arabic half-flat and half-sharp symbols do not mean exact
>> quartertones, but that's understood by Arabic music performers as the
>> exact intonation is then learned by ear. That fact does not make them
>> impract
Johnny Farraj wrote:
> The Arabic half-flat and half-sharp symbols do not mean exact
> quartertones, but that's understood by Arabic music performers as the
> exact intonation is then learned by ear. That fact does not make them
> impractical to use, as they are used extensively in Arabic music
>
> On 30 Mar 2015, at 23:13, Johnny Farraj wrote:
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>> The same problem arises in Arab music notation,
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> Hi Hans,
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> I'm not sure what you mean by that statement?
>
> The Arabic half-flat and half-sharp symbols do not mean exact quartertones,
> but that's understood by Arabic music pe
> On 30 Mar 2015, at 00:49, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote:
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> It would be worth to bring the collection of music symbols up to a more
> comprehensive set in one go, rather than to do it piecemeal.
There is a similar issue to that of the math symbols, namely, one might add
some which are not actual
On 03/29/2015 03:41 AM, Andrew West wrote:
On 28 March 2015 at 20:05, Karl Williamson wrote:
Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is written
expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to their lowest form.
That seems to be a rather rash statement. I ha
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