Re: 2 Questions: How to simulate music notation in text communication?

Why the hell didn't you just say that in the first place?

Since you're a computer expert, why don't you design a basic notation/tab
program that converts notation into ASCII characters, and vice versa. you
could then post a link to the .exe file and distribute it for free. The user
could then write in standard notation or tab, click a button, and paste the
"code" into the message. Someone else with a reader could then copy that
code and paste it into their app, and Voila. That way us mere mortals wont
have to decipher your thought process...

It can't be that hard for a "computer expert", and I'm sure there's a
royally free notation font out there too.

But what do I know; I'm just a snide expert, darn the luck...


"Oci-One Kanubi" <rhopley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Dec 19, 5:25 pm, "Jonathan" <jonat...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"js" <nothing AT nothing DOT com> wrote in
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Huh?

I didn't even make it through the subject line!

Really, it sounds like you (the original poster) are asking is how
to
discuss specifics about music, via text, with people who have never even
heard the material you wish to discuss. This simply isn't going to
happen
without standard notation. No tab or invented language is going to
allow
somebody on Usenet to help you with a song they have never even heard
before.
We already have a thorough system to discuss music. It's pretty
easy to
ask if the third bar is a IV or vi chord, or if the bass line is using a
major or minor third. If the person you are asking has heard the music
and
knows it, then they can answer your question. If they haven't, then all
the
text in the world won't help you.
Learning music for a cover band is simple: use your ears, learn the
song, then make sure the rest of the band interpreted it the same way
you
did. It's not rocket science... unless you're in a Chick Corea cover
band.
-Jonathan

Yeh, that pretty much covers it: music notation, and nothing else,
does the job. I was just wondering if longtime Usenet users had
devised a subsitute for use in the text-only environment, and
evidently the answer is no.

It's just that, I'm a computer programmer. I use "invented languages"
all the time. I use different forms of symbolic representation all
the time. I know what numeric code is actually sent over the wire to
represent each symbol that you are reading as a text character. All
the time. For me, it is second nature to invent sytems of
representation -- invented language, symbolic code, call it what you
will -- that can be used to express a concept in a medium that is not
friendly to that conceptual expression. Smart people do that all the
time. Geneticists "invent" languages to describe protein molecules,
physicists invent... well, you get the idea. Every time I design a
database I am figuring out how to use text and numbers to represent,
in the computer, some real-world entity. If we have not gotten around
to that in Usenet for music, no problem; in a very few more years
Usenet will be totally obsolete anyway. I was just wondering.

Thanks for the reply,
-Richard


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