ABC(plus) tune page

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I am a keen exponent of the ABC(plus) method of music notation. This section of my website tries to showcaces some of its possibilities.

Tranposition Options

Special 'one-click transpositions:
    None    (1 octave down) Cello    (2 octaves down) Cello    (e.g. Clarinet in) Bb    (e.g. Alt Sax in) Eb    (e.g. Horn in) F    (e.g. Euphonium in) Bb, 1 octave down [=selected]

general transposition:


Viewing score and abc source of 'sample4_X2'

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% sample4.abc - this file is part of abcm2ps
% definitions for tablature
%%beginps/hn{	1 1 1 setrgbcolor 1 SLW	1 index 2 sub 1 index M 8 0 RL stroke 0 0 0 setrgbcolor	3 sub M /Helvetica-Bold 8 selectfont show}!%%endps
%%deco head-3 3 hn 0 0 0 3
%%deco head-4 3 hn 0 0 0 4
%%deco head-5 3 hn 0 0 0 5
%%abc-version 2.0
%%measurenb 1
X:2
T:abcm2ps-4.x.x new features
%%graceslurs 0
%%breakoneoln 0		% needed with abcm2ps-5.x.x
M:C
L:1/4
Q:
K:none
"^slur above.."('G,A,) "^..below"(G,A,)|\
"^dashed tie.."B,-B, "^..slur"(D^F/2)E/2"^beam""drossing""b c#ar"!beamon!|\
D/2^C/2 "^chord slur"{(A,}[D,B,)]3||
"^standard tuplet"(3B,/2B,/2B,/2 "^no bracket"[I:tuplets 1 0 0](3B,/2B,/2B,/2 \
"^forced bracket"[I:tuplets 2 0 0](3B,/2B,/2B,/2 "^ratio"[I:tuplets 0 0 2](3B,/2B,/2B,/2| \
"^nested tuplets"[I:tuplets 2 0 2](7:8:8(3B,/2B,/2B,/2 B,/2B,/2B,/2B,/2B,/2|
"^1/4 tone""sharp"A, ^A, "^3/4 tone""sharp"A, ^C |\
"^1/4 tone""glat"A, ^G, "^3/4 tone""glat"G, F,|"^deco on""arace note"{.B,4.^C4}D4||
% tremolo: note the position of the decorations and the note lengths
"^tremolo"D,/2D/2D,/2D/2 D,!trem1!D | D,2!trem1!D2 | \
D,/4[A,D]/4D,/4[A,D]/4 D,/4[A,D]/4D,/4[A,D]/4 D,!trem2![A,D] | D,2!trem2![A,D]2 ||
%
D,/8E,/8^F,/8G,/8A,/8G,/8F,/8E,/8\
D,/8E,/8F,/8G,/8A,/8G,/8F,/8E,/8 \
"^beam break"D,/8E,/8F,/8G,/8!beambr2!A,/8G,/8F,/8E,/8\
!beambr1!D,/8E,/8F,/8G,/8!beambr2!A,/8G,/8F,/8E,/8||
%%staves 1 2
%%rightmargin 12cm
V:1
"^cross staff stems"DD/4D/4D/4D/4D2 | [D,^F,A,D]2[D,F,A,D]2||
V:2 clef=bass
!xstem!D,,D,,/4!xstem!D,,/4D,,/4!xstem!D,,/4!xstem!D,,2 | !xstem![D,,,D,,]2[D,,,D,,]2||

%%staves (melody1 chords melody2)
%%stemdir down
%%stemdir up
%%voicescale 0.8
%%staves [recit GO pos ped]
%%staves [1 2] | (3 4)
% tablature
%%stafflines 6
%%staffscale 1.6
%%staffnonote 2
% percussion
%%stafflines 1