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 [=selected]    (e.g. Alt Sax in) Eb    (e.g. Horn in) F    (e.g. Euphonium in) Bb, 1 octave down

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.."('GA) "^..below"(GA)|\
"^dashed tie.."B-B "^..slur"(d^f/2)e/2"^beam""drossing""b c#ar"!beamon!|\
d/2^c/2 "^chord slur"{(A}[DB)]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"{.B4.^c4}d4||
% tremolo: note the position of the decorations and the note lengths
"^tremolo"D/2d/2D/2d/2 D!trem1!d | D2!trem1!d2 | \
D/4[Ad]/4D/4[Ad]/4 D/4[Ad]/4D/4[Ad]/4 D!trem2![Ad] | D2!trem2![Ad]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^FAd]2[DFAd]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