Re: What about musical notation ?

From: Erik Garrés (egarres@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 23:45:50 EST


Text on spanish and english
Texto en español e inglés

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Leí el código aprovado (pero aún no liberado), pero existe una deficiencia
(a mi parecer) y sin menospreciar el excelente trabajo de Perry Roland:
-Hablando específicamente de las notas; se enfoca a representar gráficamente
una partitura, sin embargo no le está dando un significado a la posición que
ocupa cada nota dentro del pentagrama, es decir, una negra en "Fa" no es lo
mismo que en "La". Pensando un poco en como mejorarlo es asignar caracteres
de posición (tal como se hace con índices y subíndices) para que conformen
una sola representación gráfica, pero con significado (de acuerdo a la
posición en el pentagrama).
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¿Para qué mejorarlo?: Poder almacenar música (y no símbolos) de forma
compacta en medios electrónicos, luego los reproductores electrónicos
"hablarán" lo que se escribió en lenguaje musical (del mismo modo que ya
existe software que habla lo que está escrito en cierto idioma)

Gracias por su tiempo y atención,
Erik Garrés

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I read the code approved (but not released yet), but exists a deficiency
(from my point of view) and giving to Perry Roland all my admiration for the
excellent work:
-Talking strictly about the notes; the convention approved is focusing to
"draw" music, but it is not giving it a meaning to the position where each
note is, what I try to say is, a NATURAL on "Fa" has NOT the same value
(meaning) on "La". Thinking a little bit how to improve it, is asigning
caracters for position (similar to superscripts and subscripts) in order to
have a unique graphic representation, but with meaning (determined by the
position on the block).
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Why the improvement?: To be able to store music (not symbols) in a condensed
format into electronic media, so the players will "talk" what is written in
"muscial language" (like some software do speaking phrases in some
languages).

Thanks for your time and attention,
Erik Garrés

>Hello,
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>I think Mr. Garres means the western musical notation invented in the
> >1200s, which is very widely, if not universally, used today.
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>Unicode 3.0 actually already has at least 2 older forms of musical
> >notation in the main Hebrew block and somewhere in the Arabic
>block--->they are signs for chanting liturgically. These symbols are at
>least >1100 years old.
>
>Elaine Keown
>
> "Erik Garrés" wrote:
> > I would like to know, why the symbols used for music are not listed >on
> > UNICODE ?

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