Morris Dancing FAQs

abc Draft Standard 2.x: The abc music notation is under active revision and an ad hoc committee drawn from the abcusers listserv is putting together a version of the specification that includes various enhancements that have arisen outside the old spec.; • Current Standard (1.6): <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/abc.txt>; • Draft Standard (2.0): <http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/abc2-draft.html>; • Maintainer: Irwin Oppenheim [Contact Form]; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-06-10

abc Music Notation: abc is an ASCII (text) musical notation developed by Chris Walshaw to enable musicians to exchange tunes by email (originally Irish musicians on the IRTRAD-L listserv). Since then, whole databases of tunes have sprung up on the web and a number of programs for composing, playing and printing tunes in staff notation have been written for Unix, Macintosh and IBM PC computers are freely available.; In the absence of active participation by Chris Walshaw, a movement is afoot on the abcusers listserv to implement a revision to the standard. A draft version of the standard, 1.7.6, is now several years old. Although it has become the de facto standard in much of the abc software, this draft is overdue for revision and publication as the actual standard.; • Homepage: <http://www.abcmusicnotation.org/>; • Alternative Homepage: <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/>; • Specification: <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/abc.txt>; • Maintainer: Chris Walshaw [Contact Form]; • Categories: Music Software : Music Sources

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-06-10

ABC Plus Project: The only serious problem with ABC is that it was originally designed for melody, not for harmony. The purpose of the ABC Plus project is to provide documented software that implement unofficial extensions to the ABC language that make it possible to write polyphonic music. The ABC Plus project differs from the ABC Project (which works within the existing abc framework) in that it targets classical, rather than folk music and it has an emphasis on typesetting rather than simple description of music.; • Home: <http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/>; • Project: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/abcplus>; • abc Manual (zipped pdf): <http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/abcplus_en-1.0.3.zip>; • Maintainer: Guido Gonzato <ggonza@tin.it>; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-09-06

ABC Project: The aim of this SourceForge open source project is to promote the ABC language by providing a set of software and source code that manipulate and present music written in ABC. There are currently 3 active projects:; jcabc2ps – John Chambers' port of the ubiquitous ABC to PostScript converter.; abcMIDI- James Allwright's program to convert ABC to a MIDI file.; iabc – an graphical, interactive, and cross-platform ABC editor by Aaron Newman.; • Home: <http://abc.sourceforge.net/>; • Project: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/abc>; • Listserv abc_discuss: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=3343>; • Maintainer: Aaron Newman <aaron_newman@users.sourceforge.net>; • Categories: Discussion Groups : Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-29

abc Wikis: Wikis are collaborative authoring environments that enable documents to be authored collectively using a simple (i.e., not full HTML) markup language. It's a brilliant idea in itself but abc wikis -- wikis that allow collaborative editing and display of music -- are simply awesome. I've found two examples of these: MusicWiki built on the MoinMoin Wiki and AbcWiki built on phpWiki; • AbcWiki: <http://debian.10pouces.homelinux.net/phpwiki/index.php/AbcWiki>; • MusicWiki: <http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nwhitehe/moin.cgi/MusicWiki>; • Wiki defined (Wikipedia): <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-06-13

ABCp: the ABC Parser: An idea was discussed in the abcusers list to create a "general purpose" ABC parser, the expected benefits of which are to ease the creation of new ABC tools and to consolidate the ABC syntax. The aim of this open source project is not to create another ABC tool but to open up endless possibilities for writers of musical applications. The project is well documented and has a proof of concept application available for download.; • Homepage: <http://abcp.sourceforge.net/>; • Maintainer: Remo Dentato <rdentato@users.sourceforge.net>; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-12-13

abcusers Listserv. abcusers@yahoogroups.com: The abcusers listserv discusses aspects of the abc specification itself, software that is used to display, play and manipulate abc files, and occasionally tunes.; • Subscription: <http //tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/abcusers/>; • Maintainer: Toby Rider <tarider@blackmill.net>; • Categories: Discussion Groups : Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2006-12-10

Frank's ABC Site: Part of Musica Viva, a massive collection of sheet music, midi files, and music software sources, this is an excellent tutorial to learning abc. It includes a searchable "encyclopedia" of abc terms and a database of applications for doing just about anything you can think of using the standard.; • Homepage: <http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/index.tpl>; • Musica Viva: <http://www.musicaviva.com/>; • Maintainer: Frank Nordberg <frnordbe@online.no>; • Categories: Music Software : Music Sources

FAQ Entry Updated: 2003-07-01

John Chambers' abc TuneFinder

John Chambers has worked out a system of perl indexing "robots" that create an index of abc tune libraries on the web. Complementing this, he has developed a search engine that extracts the target abc and converts it on the fly to postscript, pdf, midi and gif. Very impressive work! I have replicated the title search box here. Visit his own search page for more information and search options.

• Homepage: <http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/>

• Tune Finder: <http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html>

• Source Code: <http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/CGI/abc/>

• Maintainer: John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>

• Categories: Music Software : Music Sources

FAQ Entry Updated: 2003-02-05

NoteEdit - Musical Score Editor (for Linux): A graphical users interface (GUI) for entering music that runs under Linux (rpms are available for SUSE and RedHat). Exports to MusicTeX, abc, LilyPond, MusicXML and other formats.; • Homepage: <http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html>; • Maintainer: Jörg Anders <ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2003-09-24

Scales and Modes in Scottish Traditional Music: Jack Campin's Scales and Modes in Scottish Traditional Music probably doesn't really belong in this FAQ, but I personally find his clear explanation of the music theory of folk music to be entirely fascinating. So I include it. The presentation is as an abc music file of tune examples embedded in explanatory text. Read in an abc music viewer gives the examples in staff notation next to the text.; • Homepage: <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Modes.abc>; • Maintainer: Jack Campin <jc@purr.demon.co.uk>; • Categories: Music Software

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-13

Tunes at Ceolas: Ceolas, which name is a combination of the Irish/Scots Gaelic words "ceol" (music) and "eolas" (knowledge), has a listing of some of the more important tune collections on the web. This is also a source for finding music, largely abc format, software readers and players.; • Tunebooks: <http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/>; • Maintainer: Ceolas [Contact Form]; • Categories: Music Software : Music Sources

FAQ Entry Updated: 2002-11-29

web-wide abc index: Chris Walshaw developed the original index of abc tune libraries found on the web. It is available as one large list of tune names with links to the source pages on the web, and also as a "sectionalised" version, divided alphabetically into parts. No search engine, but the indexes are fine.; • Homepage: <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/#index>; • Sectionalized Index: <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/index/split.html>; • abc2mtex Software: <http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/>; • Maintainer: Chris Walshaw [Contact Form]; • Categories: Music Software : Music Sources

FAQ Entry Updated: 2004-06-10