Music

Useful links:

• abc notation
• abc editor
• abc converter
• xmlplay

Examples

• The Planet Spins

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• Hundred River Oak V12 Both Voices
• Hundred River Oak V12 Upper Voice
• Hundred River Oak V12 Lower Voice

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• Skye Boat Song
• Grand Staff with Four Voices
• Speed the Plough

Preparing Tunebooks

I use abc a lot these days to typeset music. The online editors work fine for a single song but seem not to handle a tune book. However, if each tune is written in an editor and the tunes assembled in a separate file the file can be processed as follows:

                abcm2ps -O= filename.abc 
                ps2pdf -g5950x8410 filename.ps
            

The option on the first command is a capital Oh. It creates the output filename from the input filename. The option on the second command converts the default letter size to (portrait) A4. The output filename is converted from the input filename automatically.