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_X3'

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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
%%graceslurs 0
%%breakoneoln 0		% needed with abcm2ps-5.x.x
% tremolo: note the position of the decorations and the note lengths
%
%%staves 1 2
%%rightmargin 12cm
X:3
T:Yesterday
T:(extract)
M:4/4
L:1/8
%%staves (melody1 chords melody2)
K:Gmaj
V:melody1
%%stemdir down
F3/2E/2 E6 | z2 E/2E3/2 DC/2B,/2- B,A, |
w:far a-way, | Now it looks as though_ they're |
V:chords
"Em"x4 "Em/D"x4 | "C"x4 "D7"x4 |
V:melody2
%%stemdir up
%%voicescale 0.8
F3/2E/2 E6 | x2 E/2ED/2- D/2C3/2 B,A, |
w:used to be, | There's a shad-_ow hang-ing |

%%staves [recit GO pos ped]
%%staves [1 2] | (3 4)
% tablature
%%stafflines 6
%%staffscale 1.6
%%staffnonote 2
% percussion
%%stafflines 1