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For those interested in Persian music, I've customed some free software in order to handle Persian music, i.e. using the two specific notation symbols "koron" and "sori".
For creating partition and midi files, there are two great tools that are freely available :
store.c (seek for example the part with if (strcmp(p, "fff") == 0) and add after it, this code : if (strcmp(p, "koron") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 48"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "sori") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 80"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "normal") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 64"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "b") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 48"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "_") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 48"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "#") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 80"); done = 1; }; if (strcmp(p, "=") == 0) { event_specific("MIDI", "pitchbend 0 64"); done = 1; };
Yet the Abc2midi part is far from being perfect : It's not real quartertones but it uses the pitch bend definition to achieve this so it sounds a bit strange. The music won't be really nice, but it can give at least an idea of how the original sound should be.
In addition, in Persian music the quartertone may vary, it's not strictly 1/4 of a tone (it can be 1/3 and such). I don't know how to make this better because I don't have more knowledge in programming. If you're interested to help, let me know. I don't know either how to use koron in the key definition, so it's a bit annoying to enter them for each note.
For using those symbols, you just have to download this file
Once processed, you should get this pdf file, but you will need also a postscript viewer in order to read it (check ghostscript).
Then, edit it as you wish, and had more tunes to it.
For adding a specific symbol, you just have to use this, ex "A" with koron :
!b!A!=!
The !=! is for telling Abc2midi that it has to come back to the normal pitch bend (you must always "close" a note with this otherwise the rest will be detuned)
Example of use :
You just have to use this code :
X:1 T:Daramad of Shur L:1/8 Q:1/4=135 M:no K:C %%MIDI program 111 d !koron!e !=! g f !koron!e !=! d c _B A G A d2 {c}_B2 {A}G2 | G A c _B A G F !koron! E !=! D !koron! E !=! F G A c {_B} A2 {G} F4 | FFF A2 G2 {F}!koron! EEE !=!G2 F2 {!koron! E !=!} DDDF2 !koron! E2 !=! |
and it will display :
example of play :
mp3 (original)
I've also made a definition for abcm2ps for displaying Tombak notation. Many thanks to Denis and JF for their help in making this.
Use the same definition file as above
You can use it this way :
X:33 T:test tombak M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/8=120 K:perc U:s=+head-strum+ V:1 stafflines=3 stem=down G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G!u!B | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G!u1!B :| |: G"2"sd/"2"sd/ G"3"sd/"3"sd/ | G"2"sd/"2"sd/ G!u!B | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ Gsd/sd/ | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G!u1!B :| G2 z2 | B"2"sd/"2"sd/ G"3"sd | Gsd/sd/ Gsd | !n2!d2 z2 | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G"2"sd | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G"2"sd | G"2"sd/"2"sd/ G!u1!B/!u1!B/ | G"3"sd/"3"sd/ G"2"sd |
Call it with abcm2ps -F persia.fmt yourtunes.abc
or include %%format persia within your tune and call it simply with abcm2ps.
and it should display:
get the pdf file of this (the tombak is the last tune in it)