I’m sure there’s lots of detail you can add to ABC.
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So take the ABC code and put it in a relevant computer program and convert it to pdf staff notation……. What you see on your computer screen is Code that’s been converted to pixels and images of staff notation via a computer program. Have I explained clearly enough for you ? granted some people can read it, just as some people can read programming codes but that’s not the primary useage. The computer then converts that information into staff notation or midi or music directly.ĪBC is for the computer to read! Not for people !!!!. I think your misunderstanding as displayed here is the crux of the matter, because staff notation and ABC contain exactly the same information, so how can one be better than the other? ABC is a code that transmits information for a computer to read. Staff notation is an art in and of itself, a language of its own, so to speak.<< As I was saying, ABC can transmit information, but staff notation is quite like hearing a good speaker or reading a good writer. ABC can do a lot but staff notation can get right into the details, the finest of details. >Yes, but here the discussion comes down to the differences between ABC and staff notation.
It would be a pretty dreary musical world with not much hand-copied paper to work from without the various technologies that have allowed the visual representation of notes on a page. There weren’t any copiers back then either. If you’re really down on ABC notation and only prefer the “real” thing, remember, the “real” thing has to come from somewhere and in the era before computers, all of the scores were laboriously put together by typesetters. EasyABC takes the data and makes the visual score that I expect most of us would prefer to use. I prefer it but I certainly would never attempt to play by reading “a/2a/2b b g” etc.
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While it’s not Sibelius or Finale or any of the “professional” software scoring products, ABC is free, not terribly difficult to learn and accomplishes quite a lot despite the limitations it has. It’s amazing that the open-source concept that is ABC notation has evolved like it has. I may use ABC to write but it’s the score I’m watching when I do (EasyABC).
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