Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning microabc-2006-06-28 released

Hello people.

I just uploaded the latest version of microabc (2006-06-28), a free (GNU GPLed) software to help making microtonal music with ABC tools (abcm2ps, abcpp and abcMIDI).

The new version includes a basic built-in preprocessor (just a macros replacer) which can be used instead of abcpp in some cases, as well as a Sagittal-2.0d8 PostScript font (for microtone accidentals). This is not yet the final version of Sagittal-2 font, it is released for testing purposes and can be subjected to changes (thanks to Dave Keenan and George Secor).

A relatively complete support for Sagittal Notation System is being worked and it will be available soon (maybe in next release). Just now, you can use abcpp and the files `sagittal.fmt', `sagittal-pfb.fmt', `sagittal-mixed.fmt', `sagittal-midi.abh' and `sagittal-midi-12et.abh' to write music in Sagittal notation. See inside `examples/sagittal/'.

Any comments are very welcome.

Best wishes.
Hudson Lacerda

Home Page:
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/#microabc

Description and Reference:
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc.html

Change Log:
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc-Changes.txt

Download:
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc.zip (always the latest)
or
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc-2006-06-28.zip

About Sagittal Notation System:
http://dkeenan.com/sagittal/
http://dkeenan.com/sagittal/Sagittal.pdf

PS.:

0) Please update your links
from http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/
to http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/#microabc
or http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc.html

1) I don't release executable files, only the source code. However, if you are interested to publish your compiled binaries, I can put a link to your site, just let me know.

Thanks.

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Dear Hudson, this is a very late reply to your microabc project. Some of us
in Turkiye are very much interested in developing a maqam-friendly interface
for this open source software. Can you render us assistance?

Cordially,
Oz.

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Sent: 28 Haziran 2006 ï¿½arï¿½amba 20:28
Subject: [tuning] microabc-2006-06-28 released

> Hello people.
>
> I just uploaded the latest version of microabc (2006-06-28), a free (GNU
> GPLed) software to help making microtonal music with ABC tools (abcm2ps,
> abcpp and abcMIDI).
>
> The new version includes a basic built-in preprocessor (just a macros
> replacer) which can be used instead of abcpp in some cases, as well as a
> Sagittal-2.0d8 PostScript font (for microtone accidentals). This is not
> yet the final version of Sagittal-2 font, it is released for testing
> purposes and can be subjected to changes (thanks to Dave Keenan and
> George Secor).
>
> A relatively complete support for Sagittal Notation System is being
> worked and it will be available soon (maybe in next release). Just now,
> you can use abcpp and the files `sagittal.fmt', `sagittal-pfb.fmt',
> `sagittal-mixed.fmt', `sagittal-midi.abh' and `sagittal-midi-12et.abh'
> to write music in Sagittal notation. See inside `examples/sagittal/'.
>
> Any comments are very welcome.
>
> Best wishes.
> Hudson Lacerda
>
>

🔗Hudson Lacerda <hfmlacerda@yahoo.com.br>

Ozan Yarman escreveu:
> Dear Hudson, this is a very late reply to your microabc project. Some of us
> in Turkiye are very much interested in developing a maqam-friendly interface
> for this open source software. Can you render us assistance?

Hi Oz,

It is very nice know that there is interest in microabc. I wish I can help you on that project.

[[ I have got a message from Jack Campin, who is also interested in to use microabc for Turkish music. (I have not any MacOS-X binaries, but I suppose it is easy to compile.) ]]

However I am not familiar with Maqam. It seems that the first microtonal ABC program (a patch for jcabc2ps) was written to do Maqam music notation. It is limited to quarter-tones. The legal accidentals are (using the nominal C):

Standard ABC:
__C ^^C (double-flat and double-sharp)
_C ^C (flat and sharp)
=C (natural)

jcabc2ps quarter-tone accidentals:
_/C ^/C (half-flat and half-sharp)

Afterwards, a more general microtonal support was implemented in abcm2ps (users can create their own accidental glyphs). Next, such accidentals were accept in abc2midi. The "/" is used to represent a semitone fraction (1/2 by default):

^31/100C (C raised by 31 cents)
_14/100E (E lowered by 14 cents)
^1/3C (C raised by 1/3 of semitone)

Thus, if you want only quarter-tone accidentals, there is no need to use microabc; abcm2ps and abc2midi can do that. (If you need special accidental glyphs, please send me samples.)

However, if you want to use different tunings, microabc will be useful. (You can, for instance, get irregular scales mapped from the usual/quarter-tone accidentals.)

What do you need specifically? What will be that Maqam interface for microabc?

Cheers,
Hudson

microabc
http://br.geocities.com/hfmlacerda/abc/microabc-about.html
abcm2ps
http://moinejf.free.fr/
abc2midi
http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html

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