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abc, developed by Chris Walshaw, is a language designed to notate music—tunes and lyrics—in ASCII format. It was originally designed for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (commonly English, Irish and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard staff notation. There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...
England has a long and rich musical history. ...
Scotland is a Celtic-Germanic country, located to the north of England on the island of Great Britain. ...
Music notation is a system of writing for music. ...
Although it has since been extended in the draft standard to support the notation of complete, classical music scores with multiple voices and clefs, abc remains, at its heart, entirely human readable and playable.
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Since its introduction at the end of 1991, abc has become very popular. Programs on many operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, and Unix and Linux, as well as Palm and PocketPC, use abc as an input and/or output format. There are programs that produce printed sheet music, search and analyze tunes in databases, or output them as a Midi or Wav files for audio playback. Abc notation software is available under various licenses, both commercial and open source. Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ...
The box for Mac OS X v10. ...
Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
Palm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. ...
Pocket PC A Pocket PC is a handheld-sized computer that runs a specific version of the Windows CE operating system. ...
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...
WAV (or WAVE), short for WAVEform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
The early abc programs made use of the tools the day, such as TeX and MusicTeX. Since then, other conversion tools, especially abc2ps and its successors in tandem with GhostScript, have become more common on microcomputers. Web-based variations of these programs exist that display and play tunes using input forms. A unique feature of abc notation is the ability to manage tunebooks as well as individual tunes. Many thousands of abc tunes are freely available and searchable on the web (see link to Tune Finder below). The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby TEX, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ...
Ghostscript is a suite of free software based on an interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. ...
Newer programs with intuitive graphical user interfaces (GUIs), some written for a specific operating system and others running across platforms using Java, allow users to interactively edit and display music in staff notation rather than having to input instructions at the command line. There are also applications that convert abc notation to and from other music notation systems such as LilyPond, MusicXML, and others. A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ...
The Java Platform is the name for a computing environment from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the standard Java programming language and set of development tools. ...
GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music. ...
MusicXML is an open, XML-based music file format developed by Recordare, LLC. Deriving several key concepts from existing academic formats (such as Walter Hewletts Musedata and David Hurons Humdrum), it has been designed to become a standard for the interchange of scores written in Western musical notation. ...
A new, largely unexplored direction for abc notation is in collaborative editing and composing environments. There are two more examples of Wikis that have been adapted to display abc in staff notation. One is AbcWiki, a PHP plug-in implementation running on phpWiki. Another is MusicWiki, a Python plugin implementation for MoinMoin. Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. ...
PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ...
PhpWiki is a Wiki software written in PHP.  Image File history File links Paddy ORafferty - converted by MadTom from abc notation using Phil Taylors BarFly ©2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
External links - The official ABC musical Notation home page
- John Chamber's ABC Tune finder
- ABC Tutorial by Steve Mansfield
- ABC Convert-A-Matic
- ABC Project at SourceForge
- ABC Plus Project at SourceForge
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