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From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: need advice on choosing a typewritten notation
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Date: 7 Jul 90 09:23:21 GMT
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I have rather a humbler objective.  I would like to develop or use an existing
system of representing music in ascii format.  Perhaps something like

[Cmaj 4/4 oct:3] C C D E | C E D__ | C C D E | C__ -B__ |
						   ^
						octave switch

eigths could be: C_D E_F G_A B_C  and sixteenths  C=C#=D=Eb E=F=F#=G

Has anyone already developed such a system?  Would anyone be interested in
teaming up on such a project.  What I had in mind was something primarily
for humans (to communicate musical ideas via ascii terminals), but I'd
like it to be standard enough that a program could perform the music,
with a little coaxing.  (I was originally going to use a format like
<length><note><octave>, but it's harder for a human to read 4C3 4C3 4D3 4E3)

					David